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Saadiya Kochar is an Indian woman photographer and solo traveller.[1]
Biography
She was born into a Sikh family in Jammu since her maternal side was from there.[citation needed] Her education was from a missionary school in Delhi and she never went to a regular college. Having studied mass communication, she went on to study at Triveni Kala Sangam, under O. P. Sharma, a photographer.[citation needed] She got a diploma in photography from ICPP, Australia. When she was 24, this Indian photographer published her first book, Being.....[2]
Kochar, has worked in Kashmir for over a decade. In 2012, she organised a solo show, in New Delhi, of her images from Kashmir, titled Loss. Kochar has shown her photographs through a few solo shows and has been a part of a number of group shows, in India as well as abroad.[citation needed] Being.[vague]A book on the human form was released in 2004. Kochar has worked on a short video art project called Loss, about the troubles faced by Kashmiri Muslims and the Kashmiri Pandits. She continues to travel and work in Kashmir.[3]
References
- ↑ "Artist's Directory". Galleryartanddesign.com. Retrieved 14 October 2012.
- ↑ "24-year-old Saadiya Kochar frames 15 years of her life in a book of photographs: Your Week - India Today". Indiatoday.intoday.in. 9 February 2004. Retrieved 14 October 2012.
- ↑ "A story of loss". Deccan Herald. 19 December 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
External links
- Official website. Requires Flash.
- Rana Siddiqui, "Daring in black and white", The Hindu, 22 January 2004.
- Sneha Bhurra, 'The shape of dissent.' The Week, Feb 22, 2020
- Swati Kumari, "Strip trip", Mid-day.com, 24 February 2009.
- Shalini Singh, "Conflict camera", Hindustan Times, 29 May 2010.
- "Loss: A Film and Photography Exhibition", platform-mag, 11 December 2012.
- Bindu Shajan
- Neeti Sarkar
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- Indian women photographers
- Indian women journalists
- Journalists from Jammu and Kashmir
- Social documentary photographers
- Indian photojournalists
- 1979 births
- Writers from Delhi
- 21st-century Indian photographers
- Photographers from Jammu and Kashmir
- 21st-century women photographers