I am a photographer and visual artist.
With a Master’s degree in documentary filmmaking, my experience in visual media spans across television, advertising and photography over 20 years. My artistic practice is rooted in personal memory and experiences, and I practice diverse forms of expression with digital photography, alternative photographic processes, moving images and bookmaking. I am a member of Women Photograph, an international forum of women and non binary photographers.
I currently live between Singapore and Bangalore and available for commissions globally. I continue to facilitate workshops to teach photography, bookmaking and alternate photographic processes.
Aparna Nori
Exhibitions
2022 ‘Memory is my Sixth Sense’, Objectifs Center for Film and Photography, Singapore.
2021 Unsealed Chamber: The Transient Image’, Galerie Romain Rolland, New Delhi.
2020 ‘Being in a State of Salax’, Studio Kānike, Bangalore.
2020 ‘Self Portrait for Deitta’, Deitta Gallery, Yangon, Myanmar.
2019 ‘Mettle’ Gallery Katte, Bangalore.
2015 ‘Portraits of the City’, Vismaya Art Gallery, Bangalore.
Art Book Fairs
2022 Sharjah Art Book Fair (Sharjah), Rencontres d’Arles (France), Miss Read Festival (Berlin), Fanzineist Vienna, Singapore Art Book Fair (Singapore), Bombay Underground Festival (Mumbai), Singapore International Photo Festival (Singapore), 'Play' Zine Festival (Bangalore), IFBE (Mumbai).
Grants
2023 Runners Up, Alkazi Foundation Photobook Grant 2023, for the artist prototype of ‘How To Climb a Tree’.
2021 Pandemic as Portal Grant, 1 Shanti Road Gallery (collective grant with my artist colleagues at Kānike, Bangalore).
2020 Sahapedia Frames Photography Grant.
Workshops & Residencies
2023 Reading Photographs with artist Rola Khayyat, T:>Works, Singapore.
2022 Women in Film and Photography Residency, Objectifs Center for Film and Photography, Singapore.
2022 Photobook as an Object workshop with Yumi Goto at Jakarta International Photo Festival, Jakarta.
2021 Knots & Crossings- Exploring Post humanist approaches, Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA)
2019 Shortlisted for ‘Reimagining the Family Portrait’ Residency with artist Martine Feugeron, Chennai Photo Biennale.
2018 Building and Editing narratives with Magnum photographer Sohrab Hura, Experimenter Learning Program, Kolkata.
Press/ Publications
2023 Between the Sheets, an interview with Jodi Library on the artist book '24 Slides'.
2023 Sub:version, Academic Journal of RV College of Architecture.
2022 To Forget To Remember, Hākārā Journal.
2021 Sahapedia Journal.
Select Clients
MIT Technology Review/ Harvard Alumni Bulletin/ John Doe/ Lonely Planet magazine/ Forbes India/ Condenast Traveler/ Phantom Ideas/ GQ India/ Veeville Consulting/ TravelPlus Magazine/ Magna Publishing/ Open magazine among others.