Saadiya Kochar

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Saadiya Kochar is an Indian woman photographer and solo traveller.^[1]

Biography[]

She was born into a Sikh family in Jammu since her maternal side was from there.^{[citation needed]} 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.^{[citation needed]} She got a diploma in photography from ICPP, Australia. When she was 24, this Indian photographer published her first book, Being.....^[2]

Kochar, has worked in Kashmir for over a decade. In 2012, she organised a solo show, in New Delhi, of her images from Kashmir, titled Loss. Kochar has shown her photographs through a few solo shows and has been a part of a number of group shows, in India as well as abroad.^{[citation needed]} Being.^[vague]A book on the human form was released in 2004. 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]

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• Official website. Requires Flash.
• Rana Siddiqui, "Daring in black and white", The Hindu, 22 January 2004.
• Sneha Bhurra, 'The shape of dissent.' The Week, Feb 22, 2020
• 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