Saadiya Kochar Explained

Saadiya Kochar is an Indian woman photographer[1] and solo traveller.[2] Her works can be broadly classified into art and social documentary photography, although she dabbles into portraiture, street and fashion as well.

Early years and education

Saadiya was born into a Sikh family. Her birthplace is Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir. Kochar's education was from a missionary school, Convent of Jesus and Mary in Delhi but she never went to a regular college. Having studied mass communication, from Sri Aurobindo Institute of Mass communication she went on to study at Triveni Kala Sangam, under world renowned artist O. P. Sharma, a photographer famous for black and white images.[3] She got a diploma in photography from ICPP, Australia.

Career

When she was 24, this Indian photographer published her first book, Being.....[4]

Kochar, has worked in Kashmir for over a decade,[5] has taught photography at the Pearl Academy of Fashion and is the creative head of astudio, in Delhi. In 2012, she organised a solo show, in New Delhi, of her images from Kashmir, titled Loss. Saadiya has shown her photographs through a few solo shows, earlier as well, titled- Being...(thoughts, emotions and self-discovery displayed through the body), Zikr-the remembrance (Sufi practices)[6] has been a part of a number of group shows, in India as well as abroad.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Adak . Baishali . 19 December 2012 . A story of loss . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221017151855/https://www.deccanherald.com/content/299577/a-story-loss.html . 17 October 2022 . 25 April 2023 . Deccan Herald.
  2. Web site: Saadiya Kochar . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230203045247/https://formsofdevotion.org/artist/saadiya-kochar/ . 3 February 2023 . 25 April 2023 . Forms of Devotion.
  3. Web site: Chatterjee . Pramit . 2020-08-19 . Twitter Celebrates World Photography Day With Mesmerising Pictures . 2022-10-17 . Mashable India . en-in.
  4. Web site: Vasudev . Shefalee . 9 February 2004 . 24-year-old Saadiya Kochar frames 15 years of her life in a book of photographs . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230426040856/https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/your-week/story/20040209-24-year-old-saadiya-kochar-frames-15-years-of-her-life-in-a-book-of-photographs-791127-2004-02-08 . 26 April 2023 . 14 October 2012 . India Today .
  5. Web site: The shape of dissent . February 22, 2020 . Sneha Bhura . The Week.
  6. Web site: 7 March 2006 . Saadiya Kochar at The Attic in Connaught Place during her photography, 'ZIKR - The Remembrance' . 25 April 2023 . . en-us.