About me
Aayush is a Documentary Photographer/Filmmaker and Art Director currently based between New Delhi and Chhattisgarh. He has worked on a various short and long-term projects, exploring concepts, processes and mediums. He has pursued Masters in Design in Photography from National Institute of Design.
Currently, he is working with Chhattisgarh state PR on a Participatory Filmmaking campaign that centers the voices and lived experiences of the people—recognizing them as the true authors of its culture, history, and future.
Between 2021 to 2024, he worked as a Curator and Project Anchor for Conflictorium, a museum of conflict in Raipur, Chhattisgarh. In this role, he focused on setting up a permanent museum, designing its overall experience in alignment with the region's cultural sensibilities. The museum acts as a reflective lens on identities, cultures, history, and contemporary issues through meaningful conversations, carefully curated exhibitions, workshops, and events.
He also freelances on commissioned projects for clients such as Sabyasachi, Titan Helios, Raw Mango, Indian Typecraft etc. Some of his works have also been published in Rest of World, The Caravan, Frontline, and SPRF.
His personal practice delves into contemporary social and emotional landscapes through visual storytelling. He explores diverse communities and alternative cultural perspectives, employing the visual medium as a tool to understand, question, unlearn and relearn.
Exhibitions
2024 : Memories from Homeland
'Enchantment' : A Projection Showcase at Angkor Photo Festival 2024, Cambodia
2023 : Politics, Protest, Poetry
Film screening program : Music, Dissent, Spaces, Harkat Studios, Mumbai
2021 : Politics, Protest, Poetry
Online Film Screening, Indie Music Film Festival
2021 : Memories from Homeland
Print Installation, Art Block 2.0, Q417, Bhilai
2020 : Beyond ninety minutes
3-Channel Video Projection, Art Block, Q417, Bhilai
2019 : Memories from Homeland
Group Print Exhibition, Krishnakriti Art Festival, Hyderabad
2019 : Off the coast
Group Print Exhibition, Chennai Photo Biennale, Chennai
2019: Politics,Protest,Poetry
Film Screening, Irregulars Art Fair, New Delhi
2017 : Off the coast
Group Print Exhibition, Living Water Museum, Ahmedabad
2017 : Unwrapping
Collaborative Video Installation, INTAC, South Korea
Publications
2024 : WhatsApp vigilantes in India are converting Christians by force
Rest of World (Digital)
2023 : Out at sea: Behind the scenes at Veraval
The Frontline magazine/ The Hindu (Print and Digital)
2022 : Medium and the Message | How the first Chhattisgarhi film questioned caste
The Caravan (Print and Digital)
2021 : Keeping Score: Chhattisgarh Through its Footballing Culture
Social & Political Research Foundation (Digital)
Guest Faculty/ Jury
2024 : In Panel of Design Project review session of M. Des Photography Design batch of 2022
NID, Gandhinagar
2023 : Designed and conducted a 3-week common studio course called 'Reflections and Projections' under the theme Future of the past
Communication Design, Anant National University, Ahmedabad.
Artist Talk
2024 : Masterclass on Art's role in Conflict Resolution
UID NCR , Gurugram
2022 : Artist talk at National Institute of Design
Artist Talk series, Gandhinagar (Online)
Nominations
2022 : Nominated for Umrao Singh Sher-Gil Grant for Photography
New Delhi, India
2022 : Shortlisted for Communities of Choice
Chennai Photo Biennale, India
2019 : Nominated for reGeneration 4
Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
Workshop participation
2023 : Postgraduate Course in Aesthetics, Criticism And Theory (ACT) at Jnanapravaha Mumbai
An Uncomfortable Tour Through the Museum
2018 : All about photo-books by Peter Bialobrzeski
Goethe Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai in collaboration with BIND
2016 : Beyond the Camera
by Kishor Sharma, Prawin Adhikari & Shikhar Bhattarai, Photo Kathmandu 2016