Bio -

Vikram Kushwah is an Indian photography artist, based in the UK. He finished his post graduate diploma in the subject in 2009 at London College of Communication, after which he completed an MA Photography at UCA, Rochester. He has since been working between the UK and India.

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His work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery London, Photo London, and PhotoVogue Festival Milan. He has been published in The Guardian, The Telegraph magazine, Vogue, The Financial Times magazine, PhotoVogue, and PH Museum. In 2023-24, he collaborated with Coca-Cola on their blockbuster ad-campaign, 'Masterpiece'. He is a regular contributor to Vogue India. His photographs are part of private and corporate art collections across the UK, Europe, North America and Asia.

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Statement -

Vikram's early personal work was meticulously staged, and had surrealistic undertones, mostly inspired by Freudian theories, the surrealists, and the whimsy of daydreams. Commercially, he photographed fashion editorials in a similar vein. Gradually, owing to personal experiences of existential suffering, he started narrating real life stories grounded in compassion, through a mix of portraiture, artistic, and journalistic style photographs.

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By telling stories of others through photography, Vikram informs himself of himself. He is primarily interested in a connection with other beings, in their joys and sufferings, in what connects us all and makes us part of the whole, part of a cosmic dance. The stories are all subtle tellings of sentient experience. Some are born out of chance encounters, and some from family, the immediate community, and his natural surroundings. He tells these stories without opinion or judgement - the practice of shedding the ego - with as much care as tenderness. There is no identification with good or bad, better or worse, shoulds or shouldn’ts, rather there’s an appreciation of and compassion for things exactly as they are, each a different predicament from the other. His practice is mostly a meditation in love, a softening of the heart - an inward journey. And the photographs are just mementos.