Vikram Bawa

Vikram Bawa is a photo artist, fashion photographer, and film director based in Mumbai, India. His practice spans over three decades and refuses easy categorisation — moving between fine art photography, commercial work, fashion films, and social documentation with equal conviction. He is known for pushing the boundaries of his chosen art form, and for never shying away from exploring the unknown.

As a fine artist, Vikram has produced more than 25 distinct bodies of work — from the psychologically charged Fallen Angel series (2007) to the intimate Voyeur series, the mythological Kamasutra, and the meditative Rivers of Freedom. His photographs sit at the threshold between visibility and erasure, between the body as subject and the body as symbol. His work has been described as fantastical, contradictory, unapologetic, intimate, and ephemeral.

His commercial work is equally far-reaching. He has shot more than 300 published covers for Elle, Femina, Filmfare, L'Officiel, Hello!, Marie Claire, Verve, and Vogue. He has photographed iconic portraits of Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, and Priyanka Chopra. In 1998, he became the first photographer to introduce 3D photography to India, creating the country's first...

EXHIBITIONS
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

2015 Artistique — Fine Art Photography Exhibition, New Delhi, India

2015 The Other Side — Exhibition and video installation
ART and SOUL Art Gallery, Mumbai, India

2015 Joint Show — Nudity in the Modern Age
AM Gallery, Brighton, UK

2012 Kala Ghoda Arts Festival — Featured artist in conversation
with Rajeev Thakker, Architect and Curator, Mumbai, India

2012 Joint Exhibition on Bollywood
CSMVS — Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai, India

2012 Joint Exhibition
Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India

2012 Artworks auctioned for charity
Saffron Art Gallery, Mumbai, India

2012 Stop Child Abuse — Film and installation
TAO Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
Part of the South Asian Children's Cinema Forum

Works held in permanent and private collections including
the Jindal Art Foundation, Gallery Art and Soul Mumbai,
Priyasi Art Gallery, and the Alfaz Miller Collection.