Uzma Mohsin uses photography to unravel narratives of people and places. She is interested in how photography helps open conceptual and creative possibilities for critically examining public histories and building a conversation around the idea of home and belonging.

Some of her exhibitions include ‘India Today’, a group show organised by Ente Regionale per il Patrimonio Cultural del Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy (2023-24), ‘Kaghazi Pairahan: Publishing & Resistance in South Asia’, a group show at Double Dummy, Arles, France (2023); ‘Is the Image Human?’, a group show at Cervantes Institute, New Delhi, India (2023); ‘Girl Gaze: Journeys Through the Punjab & the Black Country, UK’, Blast Festival, West Bromwich, UK (2019) and ‘Ephemeral: New Futures for Passing Images’, a group show at the Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa, India. In 2011, she exhibited ‘Trees Can’t Walk’, a solo show, at the Forum Schlossplatz, as part of an artist residency at the Working Group Gästeatelier Krone, Aarau, Switzerland.

She has worked with different alternative photographic processes. In 2022, she was a guest resident at Maze Collective Studio, New Delhi where she used the wet collodion process to produce ‘A Muraqqa of Miniatured Lives’. In 2012, she was an artist-in-residence at the Goa Centre for Alternative Photography, where she produced the series ‘Now is Gone’ using cyanotype.

She is one of the 100 women artists featured in ‘How We See: Photobooks by Women’, a 10x10 Photobooks publication (2018). Her series ‘Songkeepers’ has been featured in Aperture magazine (issue 243). She is the recipient of the Alkazi Foundation Grant for Documentary Photography (2017).

An alumni of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, she lives in New Delhi.