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M.Des, Photography Design
National Institute of Design 2021
Bachelor of Commerce
Web-Designing and Animation for Interactive Media University of Delhi University of Delhi in collaboration with Edinburgh’s Telford College, Scotland
Project Coordinator
IFA- Bastion Bungalow Creative Project
July 2023 - Present
Overseeing the ongoing execution of the IFA Bastion Bungalow Creative Project, ensuring continual progress and adapting strategies as required.
Actively engaging with diverse stakeholders—local heritage groups, museums, and educational institutions—to enrich project outcomes and sustain community involvement.
Guiding ongoing research initiatives, collaborating with local resources, and developing engaging content for historical narratives.
Researcher and Assistant Curator
Pattani Archives
May 2023 - December 2023
Investigation and interpretation of Archival collection of Pattani Archives Conducting basic research for curation and verifying facts.
Documenting history of relevant places in and around the Bhavnagar city.
Creative visualizations utilizing the research and documentation carried out to build the final outcomes
Digital Archivist
Quicksand Design Studio
April 2023 - Nov 2023
Collaborated with the leadership team to build a repository of digital assets & information that is easily accessible, well-categorized, and documented. Responsible for ongoing maintenance, upkeep, and updation of this repository across projects in the studio and interacting with teams to pull and push relevant information into the archives.
Anchoring the knowledge repository in robust principles around permissions, cataloguing, searchability and redundancy.
Digital Media & Design Facilitator
Aug 2022 - Nov 2022 Art, Culture and Heritage History
Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer, IIT Delhi
Designed and facilitated curriculum for Design Education in Delhi Govt schools Conducted Design workshops and modules in these schools. These modules included Graphic Design, Animation Design and UI/UX Design.
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Lightroom
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Premiere
Adobe Audition
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Bridge
Figma
S K I L L S
Digital Photography
Filmmaking
Image and Video Editing
Digital Printing & Scanning
Digital and Desktop Publishing
Negatives Scanning and Archiving
Digital Assets Management
Exhibition Design & Curation
Analogue Photography
Analogue Darkroom Printing
Cyanotype Printing
Salt Paper Printing
R E F E R E N C E S
Rishi Singhal
Discipline Lead, Photography Design, National Institute of Design, Gandhinagar rishi_s@nid.edu
Yogesh Snehi
Consultant, Abohar History Project
Dr Tana Trivedi
Faculty, Ahmedabad University
Senior Designer & Archivist
Abohar
History Project
Ritwika Misra
Program Officer, Archives & Museum, India Foundation for the Arts yogesh@aud.ac.in tana.trivedi@ahduni.edu.in ritwika@indiaifa.org
May 2022 - Sept 2022
Designed and curated neighborhood museums in the city of Abohar in Punjab, India.
Conducted interviews and generated oral archives .
Managing and organizing the collection of the oral and visual archives generated during the project.
Cultural Mapping Fellow
CSC e-Governance Services India Limited
Jan 2022 - May 2022
Cultural mapping of villages of Madhya Pradesh under multiple domains such as places of interest, customs and traditions, famous personalities, festivals and beliefs, art and culture for the project ‘Mera Gaon Meri Dharohar’
Qualitative survey with the citizens of the villages of Madhya Pradesh
Archivist - Sabarmati River Archives
Murthy Nayak Foundation
June 2020 - Sept 2021
Generated a visual archive of 3000 images and ten videos ranging from 1930 to 2020 from multiple sources
Collected oral archives from the people and communities residing in Ahmedabad
Design Intern
Living Water Museums
Curated Digital exhibition titled ‘Sabarmati: Aravalli to Cambay’
Curated Digital exhibition titled ‘A River in the city’
Intern
- INTACH Hampi
The Kishkinda Trust
Nov 2019 - May 2020
May 2018 - June 2018
Interacted with locals and documented the local craft practices in the Anegundi village.
Archiving and digitization of the organizational archives of ‘The Kishkinda Trust’.
Recorded and conducted interviews of the prominent people of Anegundi and collecting stories about the Anegundi village.
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R A N T S A N D A W A R D S
India Foundation for the Arts, Grant Recipient, IFA-Bastion Bungalow Creative Project, 2023
Blankwall Gallery, Greece, Portraits Category Exhibition, April 2018
Blankwall Gallery, Greece, Fine Arts Category Exhibition, Feb 2018
Jaipur Photographers’ Club 6th Annual Exhibition, 2017
The Heritage Photography Club Mega Heritage Photography Exhibition, 2017
Jaipur Photographers’ Club 5th Annual Exhibition, 2016
Sahapedia Local Heritage Contest, 2016