Umrao Singh Sher-Gil Grant for Photography 2025

Ahlam Shibli is an artist, whose work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions internationally. Her work has been presented, among others, in Pompidou Metz, LUMA Westbau, LUMA Arles, Museo ICO, Seoul Museum of Art, Fotonoviembre, IVAM, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, MSU, UGM, Remai Modern, S.M.A.K., documenta 14, Cassa di Risparmio, Camera Austria, Carré d’Art, Zachęta, Qalandiya International, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Muzeum Sztuki, MACBA, Jeu de Paume, Museu Serralves, Museo Reina Sofía, Haus der Kunst, Galeria Kombëtare e Kosovës, Thessaloniki Biennale, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Tate Modern, Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie, Darat al Funun, Château de Sédières, CGAC, Pompidou Paris, Documenta 12, Bienal de São Paulo, Kunsthalle Basel, Busan Biennale, Seville Biennial, Istanbul Biennial, Torino Triennale, Yokohama Museum.

Gauri Gill is a Delhi based photographer. She has exhibited within India and internationally, including The V&A Museum, London; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; 58th Venice Biennale; MoMA PS1, New York; Documenta 14, Athens and Kassel and the Kochi Biennale, Kerala. She has also consistently exhibited at locations outside of the art world, including public libraries, rural schools and non-profit institutions. She received the Prix Pictet award in 2023, and the Grange Prize in 2011, among other honours. She has recently published two books about her multi-year collaborations with Adivasi artists in Maharashtra, India, called Fields of Sight and Acts of Appearance, both published by Edition Patrick Frey, Zurich.

Sanjay Kak is an independent documentary filmmaker and writer whose work includes the films Red Ant Dream (2013), Jashn-e-Azadi (2007), and Words on Water (2002). He is the editor of the anthology Until My Freedom Has Come – The New Intifada in Kashmir and of the critically acclaimed photobook, Witness – Kashmir 1986-2016, 9 Photographers which he published independently under the imprint of Yaarbal Books. At Yaarbal he has also edited and published the recent Cups of nun chai by Alana Hunt. A self-taught filmmaker, he writes occasional political commentary, and reviews books that he is passionately engaged by. He has been active with the documentary cinema movement in India, and with the Cinema of Resistance project.