Raghav Pasricha

Raghav Pasricha is a Delhi-based freelance photographer who works across multiple genres, including documentary, portraiture, architecture, and advertising. He attended the Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism Program (2020-21) of the International Center of Photography, New York Click to look into! >> Read More... , as the recipient of the Director’s Fellowship. He participated in the Eddie Adams Workshop XXXIV. He was awarded an MPhil in 2015 by the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University.

In 2023, he began documenting Baul and Fakir traditions across four districts of West Bengal as part of a project on Syncretic Cultures. In 2022, he entered the Wari in Maharashtra from the lens of resistance and resilience to social inequality with the Nazar Foundation Artist Assist Grant and equipment support from Fujifilm India. Since 2020, he has documented the redevelopment of Central Vista in New Delhi, intending to build an archive that explores the relationship between the erasure of democratic ideals and the destruction of public space.

In 2019-2020, he designed and implemented a curriculum to teach mobile phone photography in schools across New Delhi to students of all ages and economic strata. He has explored symbolism and poetry in his long-term photographic project My Truth Lay in the Shadows. From 2008-2012, he interned with development sector organizations, including the India Alliance for Child Rights and CREA, a feminist human rights organization. Combining pedagogy and practice, he has attempted to create a more inclusive approach to photography. Raghav Pasricha is known for Blackout (2016), Maya (2011), and Hostile (2022).