GAURI GILL is a Delhi based photographer. Her ongoing series include Life in three rural communities of Western Rajasthan, since 1999; The Americans - the Indian diaspora in the United States, since 2000; Urban Landscapes - the changing Indian city, since 2004; Nizamuddin at Night, since 2005. She has a B.F.A Applied Art from the Delhi College of Art, New Delhi, 1992, a B.F.A.Photography from Parsons School of Design, New York 1994 and an M.F.A. Photography from Stanford University 2002, where she was awarded one of five artists' fellowships. From 1995 to 2000 she was a photographer with Outlook magazine, New Delhi. In 2005 she curated 'Nobody's Children' - a photography exhibit by Tarun Chhabra on Delhi's street children. Her projects and freelance assignments include 1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize for Jagori(publsihed by Scalo), a photoessay on the 1984 Sikh Pogrom victims for Tehelka, photographs for Newsweek, Fortune, Marie Claire, First City, Outlook, India magazine etc.
Her work has been in exhibitions such as 'Public Places/Private Spaces Contemporary Photography and Video from India' Newark Museum, U.S.A, 2007; Photoquai/ Photo Biennale, Musee Quai Branly, Paris 2007; ' Gill and Gupta' India International Center, New Delhi 2007; 'Relative Values' John Hansard Gallery, U.K. 2007; 'I feel I believe I desire' Gallery Espace, New Delhi 2007; 'Award Winners Show' Fifty Crows Foundation, San Francisco 2002; 'In Black and White' - What has Independence meant for Women Lalit Kala Academy New Delhi/Admit One Gallery, New York, 1998; 'Alliance Francaise Prizewinners Exhibition', New Delhi 1995.
In 2002 she won the Fifty Crows Award (formerly a project of Mother Jones magazine) for documentary photography. Gill is also a co-editor of Camerawork Delhi, a free newsletter about independent photography.
Gill teaches photography at the American School in Delhi as well as conducting workshops, such as in Kabul with local photographers through the Goethe Institute in 2007, and rural girls in Lunkaransar from 2003 - 2005 through the NGO Urmul Setu Sansthan.
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