The poetics of Dhiraj Singh’s photoreportages

Dhiraj Singh. Uncertain Identity. A boat-boy mulls at the Dal-Lake in India Administered Kashmir.

Dhiraj Singh, born in 1980, is an independent photographer based in Mumbai, India. A graphic designer by profession, he turned to photography to explore the world around him. He has been working professionally since mid 2007 and began by focusing on stories from India. His work has been published in Newsweek, Vanity Fair, Lens Blog, New York Times, Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, L’Espresso, Respekt, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times and others.

Dhiraj Singh. Naga kumbh allahabad.

Singh documentary photography is a great testimony of Indian everyday life, with its beauties, traditions, contradictions and sufferings. “BNegative” and “Six Feet Under” shows the suffering of people affected by August 2008 Kosi River flood,  “Uncertain identity” documents the valley of Kashmir – object of an endless dispute between India and Pakistan – and its identity conflicts, while “26/11” is an astonishing reportage of November 26 attack in Mumbai.