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In a Fish Bowl, An Elegy for Ecology
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Untitled, An Elegy for Ecology,
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Untitled, An Elegy for Ecology
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Untitled, An Elegy for Ecology
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Untitled, An Elegy for Ecology
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Cohabitants, An Elegy for Ecology
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Penned Cohabitants, An Elegy for Ecology
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Dzukou Valley, An Elegy for Ecology
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Lonely Man, An Elegy for Ecology
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Oxygen Cafe, An Elegy for Ecology
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Broken Notes, An Elegy for Ecology
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New Natures, An Elegy for Ecology
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Civilisation, An Elegy for Ecology
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Noida NCR-I, An Elegy for Ecology
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Post-Placebo, An Elegy for Ecology
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Placebo, An Elegy for Ecology
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Noida NCR-II, An Elegy for Ecology
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The World Without Us (after Weisman)
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Man is not an Island, An Elegy for Ecology
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Beekeeper, An Elegy for Ecology
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The River Weeps no More, An Elegy for Ecology
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The Temptation in the Garden of Eden (After Jan Brueghel the Elder), An Elegy for Ecology
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Emerging Ecologies, An Elegy for Ecology
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The Great Derangement (after Ghosh), An Elegy for Ecology
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Family, An Elegy for Ecology
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Quarantine, An Elegy for Ecology
Sharbendu De (b. 1978, India) is a lens-based artist, academic, and writer. In 2018, Feature Shoot recognized De as an Emerging Photographer of the Year. De received grants from the India Foundation for the Arts (2017), Lucie Foundation (2018), Prince Claus Fund & ASEF (2019), MurthyNayak Foundation (2021) and KHOJ (2021). He was shortlisted for the Lensculture Visual Storytelling Awards (2019) and Lucie Foundation’s Emerging Artist of the Year Scholarship (2018) among other nominations.
His latest conceptual series An Elegy for Ecology (2016-21) dealing with the subject of climate change and human position in the anthropocene, premiered at Phantasmopolis at the Asian Art Biennale, Taiwan (2021). His former conceptual series Imagined Homeland (2013-19) on the indigenous Lisu tribe from Arunachal Pradesh has received critical appreciation.
De has exhibited across Asian Art Biennale, Taiwan (2021), Vadehra Art Gallery (2020-21), SHRINE EMPIRE Gallery, New Delhi (2020), PhEST, Italy (2020), FORMAT, U.K. (2019), Serendipity Arts Festival, India (2019), OBSCURA, Malaysia (2019), MOPLA, Los Angeles (2019), Voies Off Awards, Rencontres d’Arles Festival, Arles (2018), Indian Photography Festival, India (2018), Tblisi Photo Festival, Georgia (2018), Goethe-Institut (Mumbai & Delhi; 2016 & 2017), Photo Kathmandu (2016), Econtros da Imagem, Portugal (2016) and Diesel Art Gallery, Mumbai (2012) among others.
He has an MA in Photojournalism from the University of Westminster (2010), London, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (2004), New Delhi. He taught photojournalism at AJK MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia (2011-18), and presently teaches photography and visual communications at Sri Aurobindo Centre for Art & Communication, New Delhi, among several other institutions. He also writes on the subject alongside his art practice. De lives in New Delhi.
