Kaamna Patel is a photographer born in Mumbai, India. Her work explores the periphery of photographic documentation, often working with found or 'broken' images within themes of satire, illusion & the impossibility of representation.
Her practices extend to the running of Editions JOJO, an independent publishing house, photobook library & an artist-led platform based in Mumbai where Kaamna embodies numerous roles - curatorial, pedagogical, production and creative direction, amongst other. She has been an artist in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, in 2022, at SqW:Lab, Mumbai, in 2024 and at SHIFT, Ahmedabad, in 2025. Her work has been exhibited as part of both solo & group shows & her books have entered institutional archives such as the Getty Museum in L.A, the Tate Modern in London, Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong, Arab Image Foundation in Beirut, amongst others.
Exhibitions
2026 Goa Open Arts, Panjim
2026 Lima Media Art & Distant Gallery, Amsterdam / Online 2025 Deleted drafts, Open Art House, New Delhi
2025 Focal Point Art Book Fair, Sharjah
2025 Polycopies, Paris
2024 Athens Art Books Fair
2024 Photobook Café London
2024 Printed Matter’s New York Art Book Fair (Bookfair)
2024 Kaghazi Pairahan, Printed Matter Inc., New York (Group)
2024 Kaghazi Pairahan, Arthshila Ahmedabad, India (Group)
2023 Printed Matter’s L.A Art Book Fair, Los Angeles, USA (Bookfair)
2023 Paris Ass Book fair, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2023 Kaghazi Pairahan, DoubleDumy studio, Arles (Group)
2022 SIPF Bookmaker’s Market, Singapore (Bookfair)
2022 JIPFest Photobook Exhibition, Jakarta (Group)
2022 Arles Books Fair, Les Rencontres d’Arles (Bookfair)
2022 Cité Internationale des Arts Paris (Group)
2022 Miss Read Art Books Fair, Berlin (Bookfair)
2021 About Walking Chennai Photo Biennale & Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie (virtual)
2020 India Art Fair, New Delhi
2020 Officine Fotografiche Roma, Italy (Group)
2019 Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa (Group)
2019 Organ-vida International Photography Festival,Croatia (Group)
2019 Istanbul Photobook Festival, Turkey (Group)
2019 Fotopia Collective Festival, Cluj-Napoca, Romania (Group)
2019 Photobook Week, Aarhus, Denmark (Group)
2019 Photobook festival Ningbo Jiazazhi, Ningbo, China (Group)
2019 Photo Ireland, Dublin, Ireland (Group)
2019 Photo Espana, Madrid, Spain (Group)
2019 Kasselbuch, Kassel, Germany (Group)
2019 Editions Jojo at Kala Ghoda Cafe, Mumbai (Group)
2018 Festival Photographiques Influences Indiennes with BIND Collective (Group)
2017 Thalassanté , Marseille (Group)
2016 Project 88, Mumbai(Solo)
2016 Photo Kathmandu with BIND library (Group)
2015 Les Rencontres photographiques du 10e, Paris (Group)
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