Ajit Bhadoriya
bangaloREsident-Expanded@C. Rockefeller Center
Ajit Bhadoriya is a lens-based artist who works with concurrent themes of home, displacement, the tension between the urban and the rural, divided by the frail representation of nature, aspiration of home, and landscapes in the making. His work also deals with technologies of navigation and visualisation of the cityscape through layers of language, cartography and sensorial representations. He is interested in documenting the smallest markers that change the meaning of space and time.
Ajit received his Masters in Photography from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, and the University of Creative Arts, UK. He received a Media Fellowship from the National Foundation for India and Tierney Fellowship for Photography from the Tierney Foundation, New York. He has exhibited his works at festivals like Photoville (New York, 2012), Angkor Photography Festival and Workshop (Siem Reap, 2012), Chobi Mela VII (Dhaka, 2013), Focus Photography Festival (Mumbai, 2015), Landskrona Foto: View India (Sweden, 2019) and Pingyao International Photography Festival (China, 2019).
Intended project at the C. Rockefeller Center for Contemporary Arts
Ajit would like to explore the urban landscape as it manifests itself, through visual representations in images, billboards, policy documents, museums, historical citations, and signboards. His interest in the theme of nature in urban areas will guide his inquiry.
