Member Bio
Ashutosh shaktan (b.1989 shimla, India) is a research-based artist working with photography, who specializes in long-term projects that critically engage with the ideological aspects of documentary photography. His practice operates at the intersection of documentary photography and constructed imagery, exploring themes such as truth, authenticity, decolonization, as well as investigating the contextual language and possibilities of photography. Ashutosh is the SPIN-MPF (Martin Parr Foundation) Fellow for 2024.
In addition to his artistic practice and tutoring, he actively participates in cultivating apples with his father at their residence nestled in the foothills of the West Himalayas, India. He is currently based in Bristol and has just finished his MA photography from UWE Bristol.