Alaknanda Nag
Photographer & Author of Armenians of Calcutta
Alakananda Nag is a photographer, archivist, and writer. She lives in Goa, India. She graduated in Documentary Photography and Photojournalism from the International Center of Photography in New York. She photographs, is an avid researcher, uses archives generously, and writes. Her first photobook, the self-published Armenians of Calcutta launched in February 2021 at Printed Matter’s Virtual Art Book Fair virtually, then in person launched at the Goethe Institute/Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata, Edible Archives in Goa, and at the International Center of Photography’s (NYC) Photo Book Fair 2022. The book has been acquired by the Metropolitan Museum New York, SFMOMA, San Francisco, and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, among others. She is an Arts Practice grantee of the India Foundation for the Arts. She has founded Archival Matter, a research, curation, and design firm working with histories of South Asia.
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