Showkat Nanda

Photographer

Bio

Showkat Nanda is a journalist, documentary photographer and educator from Kashmir.

Fragments Beneath the Earth

Fragments Beneath The Earth

This project traces memory, loss, and survival in Kashmir through family photographs that were hidden, damaged, or destroyed during the 1990s, revealing how ordinary lives endure through absence and erasure.

Project by Showkat Nanda
the endless wait

The Endless Wait

The burden of enforced disappearances in Kashmir, which has been caught in a bloody conflict for nearly three decades, has been carried entirely by Kashmiri women – mothers and wives – whose loved ones were picked up only to vanish forever.

Project by Showkat Nanda