Member of Women Photograph, Anakeb
www.womenphotograph.com
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Born in 1992, based in Kolkata, the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. She has pursued her Bachelor’s (2012) and Master’s (2015) degrees in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Calcutta. She worked as a freelancer in the local news media during her university studies. She was selected as a WaterAid India fellow in 2019. During her fellowship in 2020, she witnessed massive communal violence in Delhi, the capital of India.
Her works have been exhibited at Objectifs, Women in Film & Photography 2023, Germany as part of the exhibition ‘CLOSE CONTACT’ in 2021 -2022. She is a student grant recipient for The W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund (2022), Nazar Foundation Artist Assist Fund in 2023, Inge Morath Award 2021 (Finalist) by Magnum Foundation, Generator Grant by Experimenter 2021, Social Documentary Grant of Murthy Nayak Foundation, and SACAC in 2021. International Center of Photography (ICP) New York, awarded her the most prestigious Mary Ellen Mark Memorial Scholarship to join the One-Year Certificate program in Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism program (2021-2022). She has been selected by World Press Photo to be a participant in the esteemed Joopswart Masterclass 2024. She has worked for Le Monde, Crafts Magazine U.K, European Union and UNESCO.
Her work focuses mainly on the post -partition socio-political reality of Bengal through the stories of women. In her projects, she analyses religion, religious conflict, and counter-religion to identify colonial narrative gaps.
Nothing Left to Call Home is her long-term project, unearths women’s narratives of West Bengal (India) and Bangladesh on the multi-faceted and complex communal events since India’s partition and independence in 1947. Her project When I Dive into the Realm of Your Endlessness explores grassroots perspectives, philosophy, contemplation, and artistic expressions of the Baul-Fakir women (a mystical folk tradition) who are largely sidelined and overlooked in the patriarchal environment of rural Bengal (India and Bangladesh).
Awarded Mary Ellen Mark Scholarship by ICP to join the One-Year Certificate program in Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism.
Diploma in Professional Photography.
Bachelor of Arts in Journalism & Mass Communication.
Masters of Arts in Journalism & Mass Communication.
Contact No: +919051418616 (India), +8801302458726 (Bangladesh)
Email: peu.tani1992@gmail.com