Pallavi
I walk, I listen, I document.
I am an artist-educator working across photography, film, and cyanotype to explore memory, place, and lived experience. My practice begins with fieldwork, walking as a way of observing everyday life, and image-making as a way of working with time, light, and material.
I am the founder of Studio Flaneuse (alternative and analog photography studio in Dharamshala) and Delhi Galiyara (a living photo archive of the city seen through the eyes of a flâneuse). Also, the name under which I conducted gender walks in the city.
As Visiting Faculty at NIFT Kangra, I design learning experiences around analog processes, sensory mapping, and embodied storytelling. My community work includes the Khirki Storytelling Project and Khirki Talk Show, supported by Khoj International Artists’ Association.
My work moves between Delhi and Dharamshala, paying attention to gestures, shadows, silences, and the quiet ways everyday life becomes image, memory, and archive.
Open to collaborations, residencies, teaching engagements, and commissions.
Exhibitions
- Amalgam: The Everyday of Delhi (Solo Photography Exhibition)
India Habitat Centre (1-31 March 2017) - Ojas Art Gallery (Solo Photography Exhibition)
Nov 2017 (as part of Delhi Walk Festival) - Video installation as part of Khirkee Storytelling Project exhibited in
Khirkee Festival 2017, Khoj International Artists’ Association (Dec 2017) - Delhi: A Rhapsody (Solo Photography Exhibition): India Habitat Centre (1-30 April 2018)
Photography for Media
Initiatives
Delhi Galiyara [Founder-2017 to present]
A hyperlocal city initiative, from the perspective of a flâneuse (female wanderer).
- Gender and Heritage Walk Curation with Sociology and Gender departments of Ambedkar University and South Asian University, Delhi.
- Curation and leading of a smell sensorium walk in collaboration with Sensing the city, supported by Kiran Nadar Museum of Arts, Delhi.
- Workshops on storytelling through photography in colleges of Delhi University and Bennett University, Greater Noida.
- Curated and led excursions for RC21 conference 2019 in Delhi, attended by Sociology scholars from all over the world. (Research Committee 21 is part of the International Sociological Association)
- Teacher’s Training, Himachal Pradesh Sr. Secondary level teachers organised by B.Ed college, Dharamshala in Feb, 2021.
Studio Flaneuse [Founder-2017 to present]↗
A travelling digital studio working with grass-root initiatives with a focus on gender, heritage and green livelihood. The above-mentioned short film on Shahpur based Bargat Collective was part of this. I used this film as a case study for the paper presentation below.
- Cultural Preparation Process Perspective of Livelihood promotion: A case study from Kangra, Himalayas, India. Paper presentation at ICSSR National Seminar on Promoting Sustainable Livelihoods in the North Western Himalayas: Fostering convergence among research, practice and Policy, Organised by Govt. Degree College, Shahpur, Himachal Pradesh. (May 2023)
- Cyanotype Walk-shop a meandering cyanotype workshop in the Dharamkot woods, a first of its kind in the Kangra Valley. (2024)
