PARTHIV SHAH
An alumnus of the National Institute of Design, India, visiting scholar at the University of California, U.S.A. and Davis and SOAS, London University,U.K. Parthiv is a photographer, film maker and a graphic designer. He has made several documentary films, curated exhibitions and has several photo-books to his credit. Growing up in a family of artists and through his own professional training, he brings an interesting intersection of art, photography and design to his work.
He is Founder-Director of Centre for Media and Alternative Communication (CMAC).
Lately Parthiv has been particularly interested and engaged in working on the issue of image perception and representation.
Photographs exhibited at
India, Australia, Bangladesh, Germany, Netherlands, Japan, Switzerland, Spain, Russia, U.K., U.S.A.
Photographs in the collection of
National Gallery of Modern Art, India; Lalit Kala Akademi, India; Minge Kan, Japan; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; University of California, USA; Australian Arts Council, Australia; Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA; School of Oriental and African Studies, UK and many Individuals including Christo in USA and Issye Miyake in Japan.
Books
Figures, Facts, Feelings: A Direct Diasporic Dialogue
Published by CMAC, 2000
Working in the Mill No More:
Published by the Oxford University Press and Amsterdam University Press, 2004
Kaaya-Beyond Gender:
Published by CMAC, 2005
My Body is not mine
Published by CMAC, NFI, DFID-PMO, 2007
Phone: 91-11-26498977, 26498106
Email: parthiv165@gmail.com
To know more about him http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthiv_shah
