Vasudev Vashisht is an artist-ethnographer and researcher currently based in New York. He creates socially and ecologically engaged photographic works that center collaboration to reveal traces of material extraction and climate change. Vashisht’s practice spans artistic interventions, participatory workshops, and the use of unconventional photographic substrates by deploying organic matter and alternative photographic processes to critically challenge the illusion of human separation from nature. Vashisht’s work has been exhibited at CreateCOP29, Photoville Festival, and Baxter St, Camera Club of NY. He is a recent recipient of the SPE Student Imaging Award and is finishing his MFA in Photography at Parsons School of Design, NY. Currently, in Harlem, he is working with compost in a community garden as a studio, subject, and co-creator. Through his work, Vasudev reimagines image-making as an ecological, reciprocal practice rooted in activism and community engagement. When not covered in dirt or chemistry, he is often found explaining to airport security why his luggage is full of soil labeled 'art supplies.’
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