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.
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.
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.