Pablo Bartholomew

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Pablo Bartholomew
Born December 18,1955
New Delhi, India
Occupation Photojournalism
Notable credit(s)
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Pablo Bartholomew (born 1955) is an award-winning Indian photojournalist.

Pablo Bartholomew is an independent photographer, currently based in New Delhi, India. He divides his time between photography, running photography work shops and managing a software company that specializes in photo databases solutions and server based digital archiving systems like [NETPHOTOGRAPH] [1].

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[edit] Early life

Pablo Bartholomew was born on December 18, 1955 in New Delhi,India.

Influenced greatly by his father, Richard Bartholomew (1926-1985), art critic and photographer, Pablo Bartholomew learned his first photography lessons at home watching his father work. In his early teens he photographed in the documentary tradition-family, friends, people and cities around him.

[edit] Photography career

Represented by Gamma Liaison for over 20 years, he worked as a photojournalist recording societies in conflict and transition. His works have been published in the New York Times, Newsweek, Time, Business Week, National Geographic and Geo amongst other prestigious magazines and journals.

Pablo then turned to photographing people in transition in different parts of the world. He has held a number of fellowships, including one from the Asian Cultural Council, New York (1991), to photograph Indian immigrants in the USA, and one from the Institute of Comparative Studies in Human Culture, Norway (1995), to photograph the Naga tribes in India.Between 2001 and 2003 ran photography workshop for emerging photographers in India with the support of the World Press Photo Foundation in Amsterdam. Among his photo essays are "the Chinese in Calcutta," "Indians in Diaspora: the USA,"and "Tribes in Northeast India".



[edit] Awards

Pablo Bartholomew at the age of 19 won the World Press Photo award for his series on Morphine Addicts in India (1975)[2] and the World Press Photo of the Year for the Bhopal Gas Tragedy (1984).


[edit] Photo Exhibitions and shows

Pablo Bartholomew's work has been widely shown in galleries in India and museums internationally. His earliest one-person exhibitions: in New Delhi in 1980, and Bombay in 1981, dealt the marginal worlds he inhabited at that time.

His recent exhibition, OUTSIDE IN! A TALE OF THREE CITIES: 70’s & 80’s is a visual diary of his teenage work. First shown at the Rencontres d’Arles, July 2007, and subsequently at the National Museum, New Delhi. January - February 2008, and the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, March 2008, it is on exhibit at Bodhi Art in New York from 9th May- 14th June 2008. An exhibition of his father's work, A Critic’s Eye, an exhibition of photographs by noted Indian art critic Richard Bartholomew (1926-1985), opened at Sepia Gallery, New York in May and will be on exhibit until 28th June, 2008 The show can be viewed online at www.pablobartholomew.com [3]

Over the years, he has held a number of fellowships, including one from the Asian Cultural Council, New York (1991), to photograph Indian immigrants in the USA, and one from the Institute of Comparative Studies in Human Culture, Norway (1995), to photograph the Naga tribes in India. Pablo has exhibited his photographs in India and abroad, most recently at Photography Week in Tokyo, Japan, and Rencontres d’Arles, photography festival in France. His photographs are a part of Newark Museum’s Indian Photography & Video Festival, September, 2007.


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