Binu Bhaskar, born in 1972 in Kerala, India, and completed his degree in photography at Photography Studies College, Melbourne, Australia, in 1996. In his photography and videos, he marks a specific convergence between ecological politics and the poetics of the Sublime. His images address us in languages from beyond the familiar usage of the spoken and convey us into a world of fugitive sensations and half-grasped impressions, intimations of belonging and dreams of the future that are implied rather than declared. In his photographic practice, Bhaskar does not identify, isolate and capture an object with his lens. Rather, he cultivates a field of meditation by shuttling between attentiveness and relaxation, intimacy and distance, familiarity and strangeness, pattern and chance. He demonstrates a classical Modernist concern by repeatedly addressing and exhausting a theme through the conceptual space afforded by a series. His works portray a subtle political statement about environmental degradation, vanishing habitats, and endangered livelihoods.

Bhaskar’s work has been featured in several international exhibitions, including ‘Witness’, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 1997; ‘Diksha’, Smith Street Gallery, Melbourne, 1999; ‘Inner Vision’, The Guild, New York, 2007; ‘Di stance’, Bodhi Art, Travancore Palace, Delhi, 2007; Christie’s Auction of South Asian Contemporary Art, New York, 2008; ‘Art Against Terrorism’, Emami Chisel Art, Kolkata, 2009; ‘Human Race’, Mojo Gallery, Dubai, 2010 and Cowwarr Art space, Victoria, Australia, 2011; and ‘Inte’rieurnuit’, La Galerie Miniature, Paris, 2011.