Tanvi Mishra works with images as a curator, writer, photo editor, and educator. Her areas of interest include rights and representation in image-making, refusal as visual strategy and the notion of truth/fiction in photography.
Her recent curatorial projects include the group shows "Rights of Passage" at Chobi Mela, Bangladesh (2026), "Moving Definitions: an invitation to re-view" at Recontres d’Arles (2023), France and solo presentations of Divya Cowasji at Serendipity Arts Festival, India (2025) and Isadora Romero at Musee Neimenster, Luxembourg (2025) and Photo Kathmandu, Nepal (2025). She was also a co-curator at BredaPhoto, The Netherlands in 2022. She has served as the Creative Director of The Caravan and on the editorial team of PIX, a Southasian publication and display practice. Her recently edited photobooks include There are no love letters here (Chose Commune, 2026), Un Movimiento Para Poder Verte (Severo Editorial, 2025) and Em, No, Nahi (Yaarbal Books, 2025).
Mishra's writing has been published widely in both academic and editorial platforms including FOAM, Aperture, FT Weekened, NO NIIN, 1000 Words, and the Routledge Companion to Global Photographies. She currently teaches at International Center of Photography and VII . She has previously also taught with photo.circle and Pathshala South Asian Media Institute, as well as conducted independent workshops on publishing as practice. She is a member of the International Advisory Committee of World Press Photo.
Her work across curating, writing and editing is premised at the intersection of politics, culture and social justice. Her working method foregrounds building kinship and solidarity, as tools to collectively imagine alternate, reparative futures.
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Instagram: @tanvimishra
