Rahaab Allana is a Curator/Publisher at the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, New Delhi. A Charles Wallace grant awardee and Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society (UK), he was Honorary Research Associate at University College, London. He is the founder of ASAP | art (Alternative South Asia Photography & Art), the region’s first app for presentation and discussion of contemporary visual cultural production. He was Guest Editor for the themed issue Delhi: Looking Out/Looking In, ‘Aperture 243’ (Summer 2021).

He also acted as the editor of Unframed: Discovering Image Practices in South Asia (Harper Collins Publishers India and Alkazi Foundation, 2023) and Another Lens: Photography and the Emergence of Image Culture (Tulika Books and West Heavens, 2024), which are two critical readers on lens-based practices and meta-histories of the image. He is on the Arts and Culture Committee, Asia Society (India Chapter). He was recently awarded the Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters from the Government of France.

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