In his personal work, Bharat Sikka offers a unique brand of fashion photography, a kind of “fashion reporting” where the environment takes center stage and the model must instead adapt to it. Its beauty is one of contrast, between two worlds that join in the sensuality of being.
Born in 1973, Bharat Sikka left India for New York to study at the Parsons School of Design and pursue a career as a photographer.
Sikka’s work reflects his native country’s quest for identity in a rapidly developing global economy. He first gained attention with his “environmental” series portraits, Indian Men, exhibited in New York in 2003. His cityscape series, Space in Between, appeared at the Rencontres d’Arles in 2007.
