ARTIST STATEMENT

After years of being a photographer and searching for the truth and reality, I realised the possibility of expressing myself beyond realism. This exploration led me to discover an alternate space helping me create my own visual monologue, with the help of reflections.

I rediscovered myself in a world where the urban spaces and structures reflected my own subconscious and recreated an alternate vision of escape, desires and a personal struggle to achieve, sometimes even the impossible.

I feel as if we are an inter reflection of everything we are surrounded with, affecting our minds, thoughts and expression, sometimes just as a silent observer of the constant change. Our minds and our vision accept these changes as our present reality, taking our past into a haze of memories and transforming them into metaphors. I stare at these surfaces, juxtaposing with these facades and my imagination recreating them into surreal and visual imagery.

My process of searching for these images in various layers of the reflective surfaces like glass, metal and water helps me find my own alternate space. This helps further enhance my vision beyond the physical world, transforming it to a poetic perspective through my conscious reaction towards the world, we live in.

BIOGRAPHY

Sandeep Biswas is an Indian Photographer with over two decades of experience in Art, Commercial and Social Documentary Photography. Presently he is busy dividing his time between his photographic practice, and as a guest faculty with various Art, Photography and design institutes in New Delhi. He is presently also a lead curator for Photographic arts for VASA (USA & Austria), an international online platform for media studies and a curator with Galeria Quarentena (Chile)

His practice as a photographer has earned him a few prestigious Awards, Fellowships and an artist in residence program in the USA.

He has had 8 online and offline solo exhibitions, over 50 group exhibitions, in various parts of the world. His works have been invited to be part of various international Art & Photography festivals. He has curated a few Photography and lens based Art exhibitions for Art Galleries and Art Institutions, as well as has written on photography for a few Art Magazines in India. He has been part of various Art Projects raising the issue of Gender equality and Environmental concern. His works have been part of various private and public Art Collections around the world.

He has been a panellist to decide awards at various contests including state awards for Jammu & Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and languages, as well as for an Art Awareness workshop for Lalit Kala Akademy in New Delhi.

Sandeep has been a photographer with UNICEF, ILO, JICA, WHO, World Bank, Global Health Strategies, BIRAC, VisionSpring and a few other organisations, done commercial photography for Advertising agencies and corporate clients, Editorial photography for ELLE, L'officiel and Interior & Design magazine over the years. His works have been special features with various prestigious Art, Photography and Design magazines and journals around the world including USA, Japan & Sweden. He has worked on a few important book projects.

He has conducted various workshops in India,China and USA.