Offset Projects

PORTFOLIO REVIEW
7th December
Offset Projects Studio, New Delhi

Application Deadline : 30th November

The workshop invites participants to slow down, look closely, and enter the quieter rooms within their images. Working with photographer Katrin Koenning, participants will approach their ongoing bodies of work to understand methodologies in narrative building through a guided exploration of editing and sequencing practices. The workshop aims to provide both individual and group feedback, inspiring new directions and studying how images speak to one another in developing a personal voice. Across the sessions, participants will work with their own material while learning approaches to authorship that honor both intuition and intention.

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Portfolio Review

WORKSHOP
12th December – 14th December
Offset Projects Studio, New Delhi

Application Deadline : 24th November

The workshop invites participants to slow down, look closely, and enter the quieter rooms within their images. Working with photographer Katrin Koenning, participants will approach their ongoing bodies of work to understand methodologies in narrative building through a guided exploration of editing and sequencing practices. The workshop aims to provide both individual and group feedback, inspiring new directions and studying how images speak to one another in developing a personal voice. Across the sessions, participants will work with their own material while learning approaches to authorship that honor both intuition and intention.

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Acts of Listening

EXHIBITION + BOOK SHOWCASE : SPARSEEING
4th December – 4th January
Offset Projects Studio, New Delhi

6pm, 4th December 2025

Authors : Abhishek Basu | Joyona Medhi
We are happy to announce the photobook launch and archival exhibit of Sparseeing, a collaborative project by the winners of the 2022 Alkazi Foundation Photobook Grant. Presented by the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts in association with Offset Projects in Delhi, Sparseeing, is an attempt to examine the polyphonic histories of community culture, specifically the Parsis, as illuminated through the archives of the Gazdar-Bharucha family.
With Alkazi Foundation for the Arts.

More information and Program

Soft Circulations : A Reading Room by Offset

29th July – 21st September
Tri Art and Culture, Kolkata

Experienced as a didactic reflection of and on various archives of the body — individual, social, and geographical — the exhibition presents bodies of work from 20 lens-based practitioners across 12 publications.

When explored, the space presents an invitation to cede to the collapse of time and rise of memory, to nurture stillness, and to create room for conversation with works of art.

The Photobook as a Site of World Building

10th August, 2025
Photo Bali

With Anshika Varma’s invitation to Island Perspective we ask her to share her thoughts on the photobook as a powerful platform for storytelling, memory, activism, and authorship. Through real case studies and personal insight, this session explores how design, sequencing, and materiality shape meaning—and how the photobook becomes a living, breathing landscape for change.

Photobook As Method

13-16 October 2025
ImageImage, London

A reading room and exhibition ‘Photobook as Method: Connecting Asian Photobooks & Publishing Practices’, this event gathers recent works by makers, publishers, and practitioners working in, around, and between China, Japan, India, Nepal, and beyond, offering reflections on the current state of photobook discourse across these regions. Through their respective practices, the makers and contributors behind these photobooks collectively form a rhizomatic entanglement that is the landscape of contemporary photography and publishing today.

Exhibition : What Makes a Photobook Sustainable?

Penumbra Foundation, 36 East 30th Street, New York

First published by Manual Editions in the UK, was launched to celebrate three years of research and conversations by the Sustainable Photobook Publishing network. The book is a compendium of forty case studies along with roundtable discussions, essays, quotes, and prompts that collectively seek to demystify the publishing process – illuminating how books are made and illustrating why knowing, and asking questions, plays a fundamental part in making better, more strategic choices for both people and the planet.

Offset Projects is a publishing imprint, library and curatorial initiative. Founded in an ethos that values community building, we work with photography and book-making in South Asia to build spaces of shared inquiry.

“How can we work with the language of photography to help bring ideas and thoughts together…
to converse, research and understand the world we occupy?”

At its core, Offset views the book as a democratic and intimate space, one that resists exclusivity and invites reflection, experimentation, and exchange across borders of geography, discipline, and form.

art murmur | guftgu

Editors: Anshika Varma and Mala Yamey
Design Direction : Anshika Varma
Design: Sanket Jadia

PUBLISHING SHIFTS : SOUTH ASIA
Nayantara Kakshapati, Rahaab Allana, Sharmini Pereira, Yogesh Maitreya.
THE ARTIST BOOK
Abdul Halik, Karachi LaJamia, Sohrab Hura.
NAVIGATING GLOBAL AUDIENCES
Arifur Rahman, Rashmi Devadasan, Saira Ansari, Sarasija Subramanian.

GUFTGU

Guft-gu:/ गुफ्तगू / گفتگو
Editor/Curator – Anshika Varma
Design : Anshika Varma, Ananya Khaitan, Kaashvi Kothari
Featuring : Adira Thekkuveettil, Diwas Raja K, Amarnath Praful, Arko Datto, Nandita Raman, Arun Vijai Mathavan, Nida Mehboob, Cheryl Mukherjee, Jaisingh Nageshwaran, Uma Bista