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Anu Kumar (she/her) is a photographic artist living and working in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia). Working primarily with medium format photography, she interrogates themes of displacement and the diaspora, using her practice as a gateway to understanding her identity as a woman born in India and raised in Australia. Through her work, Kumar strives to archive the quotidian expressions of everyday life as an examination of self, family and belonging. Her photography has been featured in the New York Times and Vogue, and exhibited at the Centre for Contemporary Photography (2022), and The National Gallery of Victoria (2023) and the Victoria and Albert Museum (2024).

Kumar released her first monograph “Ghar” with Perimeter Editions, which was shortlisted for the Paris Photo- Aperture First Photobook award (2023), and winner of the Australian & New Zealand Photobook awards (2024).