Saadiya Kochar

Saadiya Kochar is an Indian photographer.^[1]

She was born into a Sikh family in Jammu since her maternal side was from there. Her education was from a missionary school in Delhi and she never went to a regular college. Having studied mass communication, she went on to study at Triveni Kala Sangam, under O. P. Sharma, a photographer. She got a diploma in photography from ICPP, Australia. When she was 24, she published her first book, Being.....^[2]

Bibliography

• Being. A book on the human form was released in 2004.

Film

Kochar has worked on a short video art project called Loss, about the troubles faced by Kashmiri Muslims and the Kashmiri Pandits. She continues to travel and work in Kashmir.^[3]

References

1. "Artist's Directory". Galleryartanddesign.com. Retrieved 2012-10-14.
2. "24-year-old Saadiya Kochar frames 15 years of her life in a book of photographs: Your Week - India Today". Indiatoday.intoday.in. 2004-02-09. Retrieved 2012-10-14.
3. http://www.deccanherald.com/content/299577/a-story-loss.html

External links

• Official website. Requires Flash.
• Rana Siddiqui, "Daring in black and white", The Hindu, 22 January 2004.
• Swati Kumari, "Strip trip", Mid-day.com, 24 February 2009.
• Shalini Singh, "Conflict camera", Hindustan Times, 29 May 2010.
• "Loss: A Film and Photography Exhibition", platform-mag, 11 December 2012.
• Bindu Shajan
• Neeti Sarkar