Riti Sengupta (b.1993) is a photographer based out of Calcutta, India. She pursued Master of Design in Photography from National Institute of Design. As an exchange student with a scholarship from the Goethe-Institut, she attended Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, Germany in 2016. Her practice is an inquiry into the ideas of identity, memory and the politics of gender.
Along with photography, Riti works with text, found information, collages and illustration. With her work, she wishes to deconstruct the ways in which women have been traditionally represented in Indian photography.
Awards/Grants
2023, Madame Figaro Special Mention Award
2023, Experimenter Generator Cooperative Art Production Grant
2023, Louis Roederer Discovery Award, Finalist
2020, Blurring The Lines, Winner
2018, Stanley Greene/NOOR Award for Women Documenting Conflict
2018, Invisible Photographer Asia Awards, Finalist
Selected Workshops
2023, South Asia Incubator, PhotoKTM
2021, New Waves of Documentary (VII Academy and Pathshala South Asia Media Institute)
2018, Angkor Photo Workshop
2018, Foundry Photo Journalism Workshop
Group Exhibitions
2023, Les Rencontres d'Arles, Louis Roederer Discovery Award
2022, Expanded, Pathshala South Asia Media Institute
2020, Angkor Photo Festival
2020, Responses, Goethe-Institut, Bombay
2019, Jakarta International Photo Festival, Indonesia
2019, Projection at Chennai Photo Biennale
2019, Projection at Matca, Hanoi, Vietnam
2019, Krishnakriti Festival, State Gallery of Art, Hyderabad
2018, Objectifs Centre, Singapore
Features and Publications
De Tijd Belgium | The Critical Collective | The Hindu | PIX: Student Issue | Objektiv Journal | Blurring the Lines 2020 Catalogue | Urbanautica | Method India | ASAP Art | CRED
Contact
riti98@gmail.com