Divya Cowasji

Biography
Divya Cowasji
Divya Cowasji (b.1987) is a photographer and documentary filmmaker from India. Her work as a documentary filmmaker won her a National Award in 2015 for the documentary 'Qissa-e Parsi'. Divya was also awarded the Inlaks Shivdasani Scholarship to spend two semesters studying alternate processes in photography at the International Center of Photography in New York. In the same year she was chosen as a Fellow in the American Film Showcase Documentary Workshop (USC School of Cinematic Arts). In 2021 she has been selected as the recipient of the India Photo Festival Grant.Her personal work focuses on the telling of oral histories, on ideas of home and family, memory, play and the body. She is part of 8:30, an emerging collective of women photographers from India. Her photographs have been exhibited at Chemould CoLab, Mumbai (2022), Objectifs Women in Film & Photo, Singapore (2021), India Photo Festival, Hyderabad (2021), Vantage Point Sharjah (2021), Glasgow Gallery of Photography (2020), Angkor Photo Festival, Cambodia (2020). Her films have won several awards and played in festivals in Austin, Madrid, Seattle, Buenos Aires, New York, Goa & Kerala to name a few.
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