Rahaab Allana

Rahaab Allana is the Curator/Publisher of Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, New Delhi. A Charles Wallace grant awardee and Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society (UK), he received his MA in Art History from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London and was an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Visual Anthropology at University College, London. He was the Founding Editor of PIX, a themed digital publication that focused on South Asian lens-based creative work, and Founder of ASAP | art (Alternative South Asia Photography | Art), the region's first app for presentation and discussion of contemporary visual cultural production. Allana works nationally and internationally with museums, archives, cultural initiatives/institutions, universities and arts festivals. He was Guest Editor for the themed issue Delhi: Looking Out/Looking In, Aperture 243 (Summer 2021); Editor, Unframed: Discovering Image Practices in South Asia (HarperCollins Publishers India and Alkazi Foundation, 2023); Editor of Another Lens: Photography and the Emergence of Image Culture (Tulika Books and West Heavens, 2024), two critical Readers on lens-based practices, meta-histories of the image, and diverse trajectories inscribed by a range of practitioners in and from the region. He is on the editorial board of Trans Asia Photography, and the Arts and Culture Committee, Asia Society (India Chapter). He recently received the award of Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters from the Government of France.