Manas Bhattacharya and Madhuban Mitra have been working together as an artist duo for the last decade and half, primarily with photography, film and video and more recently, Artificial Intelligence. Madhuban studied English Literature and holds a Ph.D in Cultural Studies. Manas studied Cinematography after completing a Masters in Comparative Literature. Their practice probes the nature of images and their relationship to society, politics and technology, with a particular interest in how history and memory both shape, and in turn are shaped by images. Often driven by extensive research, their work oscillates between and often combines documentary and fiction, analogue and digital, images made and found, still and moving, abstraction and figuration. Their work resides in the permanent collections of the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) Chicago, Fondazione MAST, Bologna, and private collections around the world. They conceived and developed the

curriculum for courses they taught as visiting faculty in the Masters programme in Photography at the National Institute of Design (NID), Gandhinagar, between 2017-2022.