Aniruddha Sarkar, (b.1983, Midnapore, India), is a photographer, writer, and physiotherapist. His journey into the world of visual storytelling began after a significant injury derailed his dreams of becoming a professional footballer during his teenage years. Despite the setback, Aniruddha remained resilient, eventually finding solace and purpose behind the lens.

With an innate curiosity of the ephemeral beauty of nature, he tries to express his thoughts, emotions, and perceptions, with a thrust of unsatisfied eagerness to explore his own self as well as affection, narratives, and the very essence of existence itself.

To him, experimenting with artificial light is more than just a physical phenomenon; it is a metaphor for the human experience, presence, a symbol of hope.  

He always tries to search the silent dialogue between intimacies and the insipidity of relationship, resonates in the diversity of each soul  differently, where every colour whispers of forgotten dreams and untold stories in the suspended ordinary, in the profound interplay of memory, to reclaim the time. 

In his instinctive journey of self-discovery and introspection, his work with a sense of intimacy invites the viewer to step into his world and experience the fleeting moments with its natural authenticity where nothingness dissolves by embracing poetry, relentlessly.

By simply capturing the world as it appears he always wants to go to the deeper truths which may hidden beneath the regular surface, surfaces – along with the symphony of philosophical abstraction of life.

Awards: 

Winner and grantee of Montage, 2020, organized by Jadavpur University Photography Club(jupc), Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Workshops: 

1)Attended Angkor Sessions, December 2021 - 

a - “Chimeric dance: Between movement and stillness” with Lim Paik Yin.

b - Photo Editing and Sequencing Closed Group with Kevin Wy Lee / Invisible Photographer Asia.

Shortlisted for - Space118 Fine Arts Grant 21 – 22,  Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

2) Selected as one of 10 participants for the international workshop "PSA (PhotoSouthAsia) Beyond the Gaze 2023"—held at The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (K.N.M.A.), New Delhi, India, and supported by the @photosouthasia initiative of the @murthynayakfoundation, which empowers emerging visual storytelling artists across South Asia.

3) Showcased in the "PSA BEYOND THE GAZE," a group show, took place from July 19 to 27, 2024, at La Galerie, Alliance Française de Dhaka, Bangladesh.