Shuchi Kapoor | Curation and Communications

Shuchi Kapoor is a documentary photojournalist from India and a founding member of the Chennai Photo Biennale. She works at the intersections of visual storytelling, research and education, and is deeply curious about regimes of representation and visual cultures. Her documentary work focuses on humanistic visual narratives on human rights, environment, politics, the aftermath of communal warfare, refugee life, gender and sexuality, mental health, juvenile and child labour, social & ethnographic cultural practices and more, spanning across regions, cultures and mindsets in her country. She has published with The Washington Post, So Press (France), Al Jazeera, The New Internationalist, The Sunday Guardian, Economic Times, The Wire, Marie Claire, Ariana and has been commissioned by UNICEF, Save the Children, Oxfam, and SOMO among others.


She is a Dart Asia-Pac Fellow and was awarded the fellowship on Trauma & Journalism in Hong Kong (2015). While her origins are from Gujarat & Delhi, she now couriers her fill of Gujarati snacks and happily lives on podi-dosas in Chennai, India, where she heads Programming, Collaborations and Partnerships at the CPB Foundation.