Kirthana Devdas ( b. 1988 ) is a photographer living in Chennai, India. She was a recipient of the Sahapedia grant in 2018 for her documentation of thira, a ritual practice in the Malabar region in South India, and a resident artist at the Fjuk centre for the arts in Husavik, Iceland in 2016.
Her work has been commissioned by clients like AD Magazine, UN Women, Fairwear Foundation, Keystone Foundation, Marico, HCL, Facebook, Asian Paints and Hidesign.
Her work has been exhibited at the JIP Fest, Angkor Photo Festival, NCPA Art Gallery, Mumbai, Chennai Photo Biennale and the Hyderabad Centre for Photography in India.
She is member of a photo collective- Eight thirty based in India.
Press:
"Exposures of an Artiste's Soul" - The New Indian Express, 29 April 2024
"Amidst the Auroras" - Deccan Chronicle, 24 March 2016
"Snapshots of Real Life" - The Hindu, Friday Review.
Publication:
'Hum (We) - When Women Lead', Coffee table book by UN Women supported by the Ford Foundation, 2024
'The Only Thing That Keeps Us Afloat', Published by Ephemere, Tokyo, 2024
Photo essay ' After a Bad Day ' published in the G5A cultural and literary magazine Imprint. Vol1, 2022
'Pliers, Guitar Strings and some Guts' Photography for a medical coffee table book that documented the work of leading lnteventional Radiologist Dr Mathew Cherian and released by late Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, 2011.