Paroma Mukherjee

Paroma Mukherjee was born in Bombay and studied at the University of Mumbai and in London. She has worked as a photographer for well-known publications such as National Geographic Traveller, BBC Good Food, OPEN, Tehelka, Marie Claire, Outlook Traveller, Rolling Stone, Man’s World, and Time Out International. She has also written articles about photography for Mint Lounge, Hindustan Times, The Indian Express, Scroll.in, The Wire, Blouin ArtInfo, Vogue, and more.

Paroma served as the photo editor for Blouin ArtInfo Monthly Editions and Time Out, Delhi. Before that, she was a senior staff photojournalist at the Indian Express, where she started her career in 2005. In 2013, she created the first Instagram column in print for Mumbai Mirror, which ran for nearly three years. Her photographs are part of the permanent collection at the Kyosoto Museum of Photographic Arts in Japan. She exhibited her work at the Angkor Photography Festival in 2006 and at the Indian Express/World Press Photo exhibition in 2005.

In September 2016, she received a grant from the European Union Delegation to India to travel across Europe for a photography project on the Indian diaspora. The resulting exhibition was held at the India Habitat Center in New Delhi and the National Center for Performing Arts in Mumbai in late 2016. Paroma believes that photographs capture unique experiences. She sees her photography and life experiences as closely linked, though they differ when examined. Her current focus is on the social and visual landscape of today, which does not always require a camera. She is currently the Head of the National Photography Desk at Hindustan Times in New Delhi.