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SATHISH KUMAR

b.1986 Kanchipuram, India

Photographer. Works and lives in Chennai.

A large part of my school vacations were spent at my uncle’s photo studio which became an inspiration for me to pursue photography. I got a point and shoot film camera from my uncle when I was sixteen which I always carried around to school picnics, cricket grounds, shooting my friends and everything around. 

With photography, I want to record my everyday existence, of all encounters and journeys to create an expression of myself, of my life, of the world around.


CV

● Town Boy exhibited in the group show ‘Growing like a Tree: Sent A Letter’, curated by Bunu Dhungana and Sadia Marium Rupa. Curatorial Guide by Sohrab Hura at Sunaparanta Centre for the Arts. Goa 2022-2023

● Town Boy exhibited in the Rencontres d' Arles photo festival at France 2022

● Town Boy exhibited in the group show 'Growing Like A Tree: Static In The Air' curated by Sohrab Hura at Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai 2021

● Town Boy received Serendipity Arles Grant 2020

● Town Boy screened in Angkor Photo Festival 2020 curated by Sadia Marium Rupa

● Participated in Book Building Residency with Dayanita Singh at Goa 2019 & 2020

● Town Boy shortlisted in Burn Magazine Emerging Photographer Fund 2019, Invisible Photographer Asia Awards 2018

● Participated in Book Making Workshop with Valentina Abenavoli at Mettupalayam, India 2018

● Nominated for World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass 2018

● Home exhibited in Egaro Photo Festival at Agartala, India 2017

● Home screened in Angkor Photo Festival 2017 curated by Francoise Callier

● Home exhibited for the public by PondyPhoto at Pondicherry, India 2017

● Participated in Urban Water Workshop by Munem Wasif and Ravi Agarwal by Chennai Photo Biennale 2016

● Participated in Angkor Photo Workshop, Cambodia 2014

● Participated in Crafting a handmade photobook workshop with Kosuke Okahara at Chennai 2014

● Bachelor of Science in Visual Communication from University of Madras 2003-2006


Profile photo credit- Shankar