Anita Khemka

Anita’s work dealing with alternative sexuality was made into a German film Between the Lines – India’s Third Gender in 2005. It premiered at the Locarno Film Festival in 2005 and was a winner in all the categories at the River to River Film Festival, Florence in 2005. It also won awards at various festivals such as TLGFF Torino 2005, Max Ophüls Film Festival 2006, CGLFF Copenhagen 2006 amongst others. Her project, Sweet Sixteen (2006), portraits of sixteen-year-olds is included in a book, IMAGINING OURSELVES: Global Voices from a New Generation of Women. The series, Self-Portraits has been included in a group exhibition, Watching Me, Watching India at the Fotografie Forum International, Frankfurt (2006), in the Photoquai Biennale at the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris (2007), The Self and The Other – Portraiture in Contemporary Indian Photography for the Palau de la Virrenina and Artium in Spain, Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 years of photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh at White Chapel, London (2009).

With her latest works, she has collaborated with her partner Imran Kokiloo. Kashmir (2016—on going) has seen a shift in her approach to include written text, found images, sounds and alternative image techniques to represent what she best believes to be her visceral convolutions to her introduction to Kashmir through her partner. A part of this work has since been exhibited at the 2018 edition of FotoFest International in Houston. The Covid-19 pandemic resulted in Shared Solitude (2020—on going), a series of family portraits removed from both the studio as well as the familiar surroundings of home.

Anita headed the photography department at the Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts and Communication (SACAC) from August 2015 until February 2019 and is currently engaged with The MurthyNAYAK Foundation to work on their website PhotoSouthAsia which will come live in early 2021.

Anita Khemka lives in New Delhi and is represented by PHOTOINK.