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Prashant Panjiar (1957, Kolkata, India)
A post graduate in Political Science from Pune University, Prashant’s earlier work focused on peasant movements and other social issues during his college days. His first self financed project that received public acclaim was his book on banditry in the Chambal region in Central India.
In 1984, he joined mainstream journalism with the Patriot newspaper and then worked with India Today magazine from 1986 to 1995 as senior photographer. From 1995 to 2001 he worked with Outlook Group of Publications as Associate Editor. He was the picture editor for ‘India- the definitive image’, an anthology of the most memorable photographs of India, for Penguin India Books, 2003-04.
Prashant was a jury member of the World Press Photo Awards in Amsterdam in 2002. He is a jury member of the Ramnath Goenka Press Photo Awards and the Mumbai Press Club Press Photo Awards. Since 2002 he has been on the panel of judges of the annual SOPA (Society of Publishers in Asia) Awards for Editorial Excellence In March 2005 he served on the international jury for the first annual China International Press Photo Competition organized by Xinhua, the national news agency of China.
He has participated in various group exhibitions such as ‘Das Endlose Rad- Photographie in Indien’ at Berne, Köln, Lausanne, Zurich and Munich in 1987; ‘Artist Alert’ organized by Sahmat in N Delhi, 1989; ‘India- a celebration of independence’, Philadelphia, London, Mumbai and Delhi in 2002 and recently in ‘Click! Contemporary photography in India’ in Delhi, 2008. His solo shows include ‘Kampuchea lives again’, Delhi and Kolkata, 1984; ‘The Wall’ in Mumbai, 2003 and’ King, Commoner, Citizen’ in Tokyo, 2007.
Prashant Panjiar currently lives and works in Delhi.
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