Artists who form part of a contemporary Indian photography show in Paris- III

Dominique Charlet & Fabien Charuau are co-curators of a photography show in Paris involving 10 talented contemporary artists from India at Gallery Duboys. Here is a quick introduction to the three of them:

Akshay Mahajan (b.1985) is probably best known for his portraits of India’s new urban youth - their lives, of stories told, of deception, of misplaced love, of lust, of wanting and of loneliness - show Indian life without embellishment, he explores another side of India; the place that he belongs to and understands.

His recent work focuses on another form of portraiture, that of personal histories. It explores the subjective truth of the moment or the performativity associated with the notions of being young: the imaginings of public and private personas. The work’s subtle formality is the product of intense and intimate observation, communicating a unique sense of time and place.

Binu Bhaskar explores the perpetual motion of humans living in cities around the world. The never-ending universal race to get somewhere or achieve something is captured in a series of highly evocative studies that illustrate the restless human psyche. He has a Diploma in Illustrative Photography (Fine Arts), Photography Studies College, Melbourne, Australia and a Bachelors Degree in English literature, Calicut University, India

Brijesh Patel has been nominated for Prix Pictet 3 in 2011.Based from London, United Kingdom, he is a freelance photographer specializing in editorial and documentary photography. His personal work reflects his strong interest in modern India, the social, economic and lifestyle changes that are being experienced by in excess of 400 million people. He has won numerous awards; the most recent are the Joan Wakelin Bursary from the Royal Photographic Society, and the Winston Churchill Fellowship award.

Kolkata based Soham Gupta is specialized in documenting social injustice and working with disadvantaged children, laborers and the homeless mentally ill. He works with the sole objective of witnessing and documenting injustice in today’s society and raise social awareness about issues that are often overlooked.