Varun Gupta | Project Lead

Varun Gupta is a commercial photographer, serial-entrepreneur, digital ad-man and a lover of analogue photography who co-founded Chennai Photo Biennale in 2015. His alma maters include Light & Life Academy and the College of Wooster, US. In 2006 he founded Travelling Lens - a company that conducted specialised photography workshops and holidays in remote areas of India from 2007 to 2015. Photo Seva is one of his long-term portraiture projects where he travels to make portraits of local communities across India with a large-format camera and B&W film. His work has been shown by galleries in Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata, New Delhi, Kochi and Pondicherry.



In 2010, Varun began work with Art Chennai (a city-wide arts event) to manage their photography exhibitions with a focus on public engagement through which they organised large exhibitions in train stations and beaches in Chennai. His love for public art saw its roots with establishing the first Chennai Photo Biennale in 2016 - an international visual arts festival that promotes and celebrates photography and discourses around it. He is the Managing Trustee of the Chennai Photo Biennale Foundation and Director of the CPB Foundation.