Intro
I have been practising photography for the past 6 years winning several awards including being a finalist in the Sony awards and UNESCO silk road photo contest. Being born into an agricultural family my artwork has always been about representing the socially oppressed communities and the inequalities faced by them in their daily course of life. Throughout my 6 years of photographic practice, I have tried to represent these problems in the still photographic form but it was only later in 2019 that I made my first short film about the religious extremism in my country India, after the completion of this project and its several film festival selections. I realised the power that a moving image piece holds in 20th-century globalisation has increased the production and distribution of several forms of media, art, goods etc and made it accessible to the larger part of the world which has created an everlasting competition within people and their timespan of looking at artworks has reduced, I am interested in making films and photographic works that accomplishes the tasks of appealing to the masses at the same time acts as the voice to the voiceless by bringing their daily life stories to worldwide audience. My previous short film " Shivanum mohiniyum" deals with the themes of Religious extremism practised by the government combining it with the themes of gender identity. My latest film is a feature film "Paradise Built in hell “which deals with themes of how the suppression of class struggle has been leading to identity politics within Europe. I would like continue working on commissions exploring several different themes surrounding culture, identity, oppression and class struggle.