Dipanwita Saha is an independent photographer based in Kolkata, India. Her interest in photography stems from her father. She is belonging from a refugee family, since from her childhood she was grown up with stories of brutality, hatred , friendship and culture. She always wants to narrate those stories to the world and choose photography as a medium. Before starting photography as an art practice She has been completed her graduation in Engineering. Her work has been published in many online magazines and exhibited in Indian Photo Festival and Khoj Gallery, and also featured in Angkor photo festival. Using personal and subjective modalities in her documentary practice, Dipanwita explores the complexities of societal frameworks and the dynamics of political institutions in contemporary India. Her primary areas of interest are history, cultural narratives and socio-political changes. In recent years, She has been working for an oral archive of the pre-independence era of India and how it changes the culture of a city. As part of her image-making practice, Dipanwita deploys the personal voices, metaphorical exploration, and abstraction to unravel narratives of people, places, and their histories
Grant | Awards | Mentorship | Portfolio Review
2022 - Experimenter Generator Co-operative Art Production Fund
2022 – Visual Research on Calcutta 1946 with the collaboration of Mahanirban Calcutta
Research Group and the Institute for Human Science, Vienna.
2022 – Women Photograph Workshop.
2022 – Selected for Hamburg Portfolio Review Program.
2022 – Selected for Magnum Foundation Portfolio Review Program.
2022 – Selected for Social Documentary Network Portfolio Review Program.
2021 - Foundry Photojournalism Workshop under Vanessa Charlot by VII Agency.
2020 – Imagining The Nation State Grant by Chennai Photo Biennale Foundation in collaboration with the Diffusion Festival/Ffotogallery, Wales with the support of the British Council and Wales Arts International .
2020 - Mentorship program under Sohrab Hura and Sabih Ahmed by Khoj Studio.
Exhibition | Feature
2022 - Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India.
2022 - HPR Open-air exhibition, Hamburg, Germany.
2021 - Khoj Studio, Delhi, India.
2021 - Diffusion Festival, Cardiff, Wales.
2021 - Jakarta photo festival, Indonesia.
2020 - Indian Photo Festival, Hyderabad, India.
2020- Angkor Photo Festival.
