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Prashant Panjiar
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The carefully composed and thoroughly meticulous photographs shot by Prashant Panjiar make it hard to believe that he is a self-taught photographer.
Currently placed amongst India’s best known in the field of photography, Panjiar started out on what was to become his career in photography in Pune with a portfolio of industrial shots. In 1984, he joined mainstream journalism with the Patriot newspaper, and photographed many...
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The carefully composed and thoroughly meticulous photographs shot by Prashant Panjiar make it hard to believe that he is a self-taught photographer.
Currently placed amongst India’s best known in the field of photography, Panjiar started out on what was to become his career in photography in Pune with a portfolio of industrial shots. In 1984, he joined mainstream journalism with the Patriot newspaper, and photographed many important events including the riots after the assassination of Indira Gandhi. He later went on to work as a senior photojournalist at India Today and then as associate editor and deputy editor at Outlook, two of India’s most well known news magazines, and is also a recurrent contributor to Time Magazine. Panjiar now runs his own organization in New Delhi, Livewire Images, a picture agency founded in 2000.
Ordinary people leading ordinary lives have always been the focus of Panjiar’s work. Irrespective of their background, Panjiar strives to portray the sense of dignity that rightfully belongs to an individual no matter how much they possess in terms of material goods. Referring to his exhibition ‘Kings and Commoners’ shown at various locations in India between January and May 2000, Panjiar explains, “Though the people depicted in my photographs are very different from one another in economic and social status, each one of them occupies their individual space with pride. In the end, I hope, the dignity of the individuals who appear in my photographs will tend to blur these distinctions – kings could be commoners and commoners kings.”
Panjiar has also worked on a number of photographic projects focusing on peasant movements and other social issues during his college and university days. His first self-financed project that received public acclaim was his work for a book on banditry in the Chambal region of Central India. He has also produced the book, “The Survivours – Kampuchea 1984” for Patriot Publishers. His most recent work as picture editor is a book of the most memorable photographs of India from Dorling Kindersley and Penguin India titled ‘India – The Definitive Image’. Panjiar is also one of the senior photographers that selects and then mentors young documentary photographers for the National Foundation of India’s fellowship program. Panjiar has served on the jury of the World Press Photo Awards in 2002, the China International Press Photo Competition in 2005 and the Ramnath Goenka Press Photo Awards 2004-2006.
Born in 1957, Panjiar’s works have been exhibited in several shows. His most recent solo shows include ‘King, Commoner, Citizen’ at the Konica Minolta Gallery, Tokyo and New Delhi, in 2007; ‘The Wall’ in Mumbai, 2003; ‘Kings and Commoners’ in New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore and Pune in 2000; and ‘Kampuchea Lives Again’ in New Delhi and Kolkata in 1984. The recent group shows in which his works have featured include ‘Click! Contemporary Photography in India’ at Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, and Grosvenor Vadehra, London, in 2008; ‘Tirtha’ in New Delhi in 2007; ‘Ways of Resisting’ in New Delhi in 2002; ‘India – A Celebration of Independence’ in Philadelphia, London, New Delhi and Mumbai in 1997; and ‘India 24 Hours’ in Mumbai in 1996.
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Born
March 30, 1957
Kolkata
Education
Self-Taught Photographer
1981 Master of Arts, Political Science from Pune University
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009 'Pan India: A Shared...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009 'Pan India: A Shared Habitat', Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi; Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore
2007 ‘King, Commoner, Citizen’, Siri Fort Educational Gallery, New Delhi and Konica Minolta Gallery, Tokyo
2003 ‘The Wall’, Oxford Book Store, Mumbai
2000 ‘King and Commoners’, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi; Piramal Gallery, Mumbai; Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata; Chitrakala Parishath, Bangalore; Bal Gandharva, Pune
1984 ‘Kampuchea Lives Again’, All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (AIFACS), New Delhi; Gorky Sadan, Kolkata
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 'Wide Angle 2010', The Stainless Gallery, New Delhi
2008 ‘Click! Contemporary Photography from India’, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi and Grosvenor Vadehra Gallery, London
2002 ‘India- a Celebration of Independence’, Philadelphia Museum of Art; Royal Festival Hall, London; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; Indianapolis Museum of Art; Knoxville Museum of Art; National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai and New Delhi; Victoria Memorial Museum, Kolkata; Lalit Kala Academy, Chennai.
2002 ‘Ways of Resisting’, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi.
1996 ‘India 24 Hours’, Mumbai
1994-95 ‘Punjab 1994’, National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi, Chandigarh and Mumbai
1991 ‘Rajiv Gandhi’, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi.
1989 ‘Artist Alert’ organized by Sahmat at Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi.
1987 ‘Das Endlose Rad- Photographie in Indien’ at Berne, Köln, Lausanne, Zurich and Munich
Joint Exhibitions
2008 ‘Tirtha’, with Dinesh Khanna at Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi
Participations
2010 'Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh', Whitechapel Gallery, London; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich
2009-10 'The Self & the Other: Portraiture in Contemporary Indian photography', Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona; Artium - Centro Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Honours and Awards
2005 Served on the Jury of the China International Press Photo Competition organized by Xinhua, the national news agency of China.
2004-06, 08 Served on the Jury of the Ramnath Goenka Press Photo Awards
2002 He has been on the Panel of Judges of the Annual SOPA (Society of Publishers in Asia) Awards for Editorial Excellence
2002 Served on the Jury of the World Press Photo Awards in Amsterdam
2005 Served on the Jury of the China International Press Photo Competition organized by Xinhua, the national news agency of China.
2004-06, 08 Served on the Jury of the Ramnath Goenka Press Photo Awards
2002 He has been on the Panel of Judges of the Annual SOPA (Society of Publishers in Asia) Awards for Editorial Excellence
2002 Served on the Jury of the World Press Photo Awards in Amsterdam
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