Abhijit Pal
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Abhijit Pal is a Naarm/Melbourne-based image maker specialising in visual ethnography through documentary and conceptual photography. With academic training in India and Germany, his work explores social memory and collaborative storytelling. He has exhibited internationally at venues including the Jimei x Arles Festival (China), Deutsches Haus (New York), and the Serendipity Arts Festival (India). Abhijit’s work has been recognized with awards such as the National Geographic Moment Award and the London Creative Competition. He has also worked as a photojournalist and photo editor, and teaches photography and visual storytelling at various institutions. His practice continually interrogates cultural narratives, establishing him as a distinctive voice in contemporary photographic arts.
Desired, Consumed
Embroidery on Canson Aquarelle Rag photo paper, 42cm x 59.4cm, 2024.
$1000
“The shanty by the sea grows by individual desire into a McMansion, which the tides of the sea, also growing from our collective desires and manifesting as global warming, eventually consume. The land and the sea seem to be in a cosmic lovers’ wrestle, mounting and overthrowing each other, but we only mourn the loss of our timber and concrete. The skeleton of the McMansion is our hubris, an ephemera.”