Shaheed / Witness / Kashmir

At Campbelltown Arts Centre and Cockatoo Island, Shaheed / Witness / Kashmir presents the work of nine photographers from Kashmir.

These images were created between 1986-2016 in Indian controlled Kashmir, as its people found themselves pulled between the exhilaration of a struggle for freedom and the violence of its consequences.

"The images were first brought together in the photobook Witness  (2017). "The men who took these pictures had drifted – untrained – into photojournalism, and for the most part seen it as job, not an artistic practice. But to feed the insatiable appetites of the global hunger for images meant going out every-day, forced to look at their own world, and relentlessly pushed to engage with a story that in many ways was also about themselves."

- Sanjay Kak, Artist

Meraj Ud Din
Born 1959 in Srinagar, Kashmir
Lives and works in Srinagar

Javeed Shah
Born 1967 in Srinagar, Kashmir
Lives and works in Srinagar

Dar Yasin
Born 1973 in Srinagar, Kashmir
Lives and works in Srinagar

Javed Dar
Born 1975 in Anantnag, Kashmir
Lives and works in Srinagar, Kashmir

Altaf Qadri
Born 1976 in Srinagar, Kashmir
Lives and works in Srinagar

Sumit Dayal
Born 1981 in Srinagar, Kashmir
Lives and works in Kathmandu, Nepal and New Delhi, India

Showkat Nanda
Born 1982 in Baramulla, Kashmir
Lives and works in Baramulla

Syed Shahriyar
Born 1992 in Srinagar, Kashmir
Lives and works in Srinagar

Azaan Shah
Born 1997 in Srinagar, Kashmir
Lives and works in Srinagar

Sanjay Kak
Born 1958 in Pune, India
Lives and works in New Delhi, India