Bio

          Anoop Ray grew up in a quaint town, Kishangarh-Bas, nestled between the Aravallis, Rajasthan. He completed his BFA in Painting from Amity University, Noida in 2013. He earned his Diploma in Photography from Academy for Photographic Excellence, New Delhi in 2009. Ray works predominantly in the Medium of the photograph.

 

        His photographic work revolves around personal narratives and vanishing cultures. He made a small handmade photo book Alta (Traditional Vermillion) on the last rites of his mother. His project Friends and Their Friends portrays the intimate relationships among his friends as they changed over the years. His portraits from the series Theatre of Real Life documents the elderly people in Ahmedabad in Gujarat. He has revisited his ancestral hometown to document Mother Teresa’s Legacy in West Bengal and has extensively documented the dying Gadia Lohar tribe in Rajasthan.

 

         Ray has exhibited at India Habitat Centre, Alliance Française, IGNCA, and NID amongst other places in India. He has also exhibited at Kolga Tbilisi Photo 2016 in Georgia and The Galerie Lichtblick in Germany. His work titled Friends and Their Friends is being exhibited at the FotoFest International 2018 in Houston And Serendipity Arts Festival 2018, Goa, India. Recently, his work is exhibiting at Landskrona museum, Landskrona foto 2019, Sweden.
 

        His work has been published in The New York Times, Aperture, Houston Chronicle, e-Flux, We-heart, Art Houston Magazine, Photograph Magazine, OutSmart Magazin, Sunday Guardian, and including others.

 

    Ray has been awarded 20,000USD "Career-changing Award" by the Inaugural Charles Jing Fellowships at the FotoFest International 2018 in Houston, USA.