Adil Hasan is an artist based in New Delhi, India, working across documentary, fashion and art photography. His practice explores the relationship between images, memory and perception, often questioning the boundaries between what is remembered, observed and imagined.
Initially drawn to documentary photography and long term personal projects, Hasan has gradually expanded his practice to include fashion, approaching the genre as a space for visual experimentation and creative expression. His work moves between commissioned assignments and independent projects, with an interest in the ways photographs construct narratives and shape our understanding of the world.
He is the author of two published photobooks, When Abba Was Ill and STATIC. When Abba Was Ill, launched at the Jaipur literature festival in 2014, explores the personal and emotional dimensions of illness and memory, documenting the last 6 months of his father’s life. STATIC (2026) examines the evolution of the television screen into contemporary algorithmic systems, reflecting on the changing relationship between images, its dissemination and the viewer.
His ongoing photobook project Black CAT White CAT explores the relationship between photography, memory and quantum superposition through found photographs whose images are real, while the memories surrounding them remain uncertain.
Hasan's practice is informed by an ongoing interest in the philosophical dimensions of photography and its capacity to question the nature of reality, recollection and observation.
Book reviews, articles and interviews –
Trans Photography Asia, University of Toronto
https://read.dukeupress.edu/trans-asia-photography/article/doi/10.1215/21582025-11297256/392726/Unfolding-Memory-in-Adil-Hasan-s-When-Abba-Was-Ill
The Eye of photography –
http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2014/02/24/article/24027/adil-hasan-when-abba-was-ill/
Platform Magazine -
https://www.platform-mag.com/art/adil-hasan.html
The Curator Mag -
https://thecuratormag.com/photo-book-adil-hasan/
Medium -
https://medium.com/@saptarshighosh7952/broadcasting-nothing-ruminations-on-adil-hasans-the-tv-5d0a1437c2ad
Colin Pantall’s Blog –
http://colinpantall.blogspot.in/2015/10/when-abba-was-ill-by-adil-hasan.html
Tasveer Journal –
http://tasveerjournal.com/2014/03/02/when-abba-was-ill-book-review/
Exhibitions, Awards and Launches
2009 – “untitled installation”, Unitec, NewZealand
2010 – “the urban project”, Unitec, NewZealand
2010 – “performance”, Unitec, NewZealand
2011 – “the TV”, Imaginaries, PIX quarterly, Goethe Institute, New Delhi
2012 – Toto Award for photography for “the TV”
2012 – National Foundation for India, Media Fellowship for “Aligarh Muslim University”
2013 – “Aligarh Muslim University”, exhibition, India Habitat Center, New Delhi
2013 – “37 INDIAN STILL LIFES”, group show, Tasveer Gallery (Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Kolkata)
2014 – “WHEN ABBA WAS ILL”, Book Launch, Jaipur Literature festival, Jaipur
2014 – “WHEN ABBA WAS ILL”, Book Launch , Oxford Bookstore, New Delhi
2014 – “The tomb of Amir Khusro”, exhibition, “Fotoposia – Octavia Paz e India”, Cervantes Institute, New Delhi
2014 – “WHEN ABBA WAS ILL”, Book exhibtion and talk, Angkor Photo Festival, Siem Reap, Cambodia
2014 – “The tomb of Amir Khusro”, Sensorium, Soonapranta, Goa
2015 – “WHEN ABBA WAS ILL”, Photo Kathmandu, Nepal
2016 – “WHEN ABBA WAS ILL”, Fishbar Gallery, London
2017 – “The tomb of Amir Khusro”, exhibition, “Fotoposia – Octavia Paz e India”, Cervantes Institute, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2017 – “the TV”, Egaro Photo Festival, Agartala, Tripura
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