Ayan Biswas
B.
1988
Ladakh
"
The sun and salt of a chosen home
"
Ayan Biswas is a visual artist working with photography, printmaking, and moving images to explore landscapes, memory, and human relationships. His practice approaches image-making as a slow inquiry into place, examining how material processes, regional histories, and lived environments translate personal experiences into collective narratives.
After years of travelling and photographing the hills, Ayan chose to settle in a remote village in Ladakh, seeking not to document the landscape from a distance but to live within it. Immersed in everyday life, working alongside the community, tending livestock, farming, and sharing daily routines, he began to observe the intricate relationship between people, land, and time. This lived engagement reshaped his understanding of home and belonging, and informed images that reflect emotional ties to land rather than descriptive views of it.
Drawn to analogue and alternative photographic processes, Ayan builds cameras and experiments with historically slow printing methods. The extended duration of these processes mirrors the rhythms of pastoral life, where waiting, pause, and seasonal cycles are integral to movement rather than signs of stasis. Through this slowness, images are allowed to unfold gradually, holding space for reflection and multiple readings.
In parallel, his research explores the use of local plants and materials as photographic media, embedding the ecology and history of the region directly into the image. Over the past year, his practice has expanded into collaborative workshops with local communities, where image-making becomes a shared act. Together, they build an evolving archive that reflects collective identity, memory, and a quiet, enduring sense of belonging.
artworks
Mahakala - The Protector Deity
2025
Tri-Colour Gum Bichromate Print on Hahnemühle Platinum Rag
8 × 10 in
Where Do Old Trees Go to Die (Part 1)
2024
Image Made with a Large Format Camera and X-Ray Negative
8 × 10 in
Khuyus
2025
Silver Gelatin Print, Pearl Finish on Ilford Multigrade Paper
11 × 14 in
The Abandoned Classroom
2025
Salted Paper Print on Arches Aquarelle 300g Watercolour Paper
8.27 × 11.69 in
Month of Blossoms
2025
Toned With Walnut Shells
8.27 × 11.69 in
The Bohurupi (2 Copies)
2024
Silver Gelatin Print Made on Resin-Coated Paper
7.5 × 8 in
Dandelion Dreams - From a bordering village in Turtuk
2025
Silver Gelatin Print, Pearl Finish
5.5 × 7.5 in
Days of Harvest 2 (Set of 9)
2025
Salted Paper Print from Medium Format Negatives on Watercolour Paper
4.53 × 4.53 in
From the land of Nomads- Yagang Camp, Kharnak
2025
Toned With Wild Flowering Plant Sporlo
8.27 × 11.69 in
From the Month of Blossoms (Version 1)
2025
Tea-Toned Cyanotype
8 × 10 in
Morning Rituals
2025
Silver Gelatin Print, Pearl Finish
8 × 10 in
Amaley
2025
Toned Cyanotype on Arches Aquarelle 300g Watercolour Paper
8.27 × 11.69 in
Days of Harvest 5 (Set of 9)
2025
Salted Paper Print from Medium Format Negatives on Watercolour Paper
4.53 × 4.53 in
Days of Harvest 4 (Set of 9)
2025
Salted Paper Print from Medium Format Negatives on Watercolour Paper
4.53 × 4.53 in
From the Month of Blossoms (Version 2)
2025
Cyanotype Toned with Roots of a Local Plant Named Demok
8.8 × 11.5 in
The Bohurupi
2024
Hand Embroidery on Silver Gelatin Print Made on Resin-Coated Paper
7.5 × 8 in
Days of Harvest 7 (Set of 9)
2025
Salted Paper Print from Medium Format Negatives on Watercolour Paper
4.53 × 4.53 in
The Symbolism of Offerings
2025
Tri-Colour Cyanotype Print Made with Local Tea (Cha Khangte)
8 × 10 in
Days of Harvest 8 (Set of 9)
2025
Salted Paper Print from Medium Format Negatives on Watercolour Paper
4.53 × 4.53 in
Khorlo - The Wheel of Life
2025
Silver Gelatin Print on Ilford Multigrade Pearl Finish Paper
9 × 12 in
Through the Junipers - Likir, Ladakh
2025
Silver Gelatin Print on Fibre Paper, Matt Finish
6 × 7.5 in
Days of Harvest - Likir, Ladakh (2 editions)
2025
Toned With Local Tea
8.27 × 11.69 in
Dandelion Dreams - From a bordering village in Turtuk
2025
Walnut-Toned Cyanotype
6.5 × 6 in
Days of Summer - Likir, Ladakh
2025
Wild Flowers Imprint on Silver Gelatin Print, Pearl Finish
8 × 10 in
Rock Formations
16 December 2025
Rock Pigments and Light-Sensitive Salts Bound with Gum Arabic to Make the Pigments for Printing
7 Squares of 6 × 6 in Each
Weight of Barley
2024
Multiple-Toned Cyanotype Print with Leaves of Sporlo and Local Tea
6 × 9 in
A walk through the apricot orchards - Dah village, Kargil
2025
Toned With Wild Flowering Plant Sporlo
8.5 × 6 in
Acts of Braiding
2025
Toned With Local Tea
8.27 × 11.69 in
Summer Pastures
2025
Silver Gelatin Print on Ilford Multigrade Pearl Finish Paper
9 × 12 in
Flying Seeds
2024
Silver Gelatin Print on Resin-Coated Paper
7 × 7 in
A Winter Reminiscence
2025
Silver Gelatin Print on Ilford Multigrade Pearl Finish Paper
9 × 12 in
Weight of Barley
2025
Salted Paper Print
6 × 8 in
Dardic Women - Image of a local from the Dard tribe
2025
Van Dyke Brown Print
8.27 × 11.69 in
Days of Harvest 1 (Set of 9)
2025
Salted Paper Print from Medium Format Negatives on Watercolour Paper
4.53 × 4.53 in
Passing by the Chortens
2024
Hand Embroidery on Cyanotype
6.5 × 8.5 in
The Ladakhi Kitchen - Likir Monastery, Ladakh (2 editions)
2025
Silver Gelatin Print, Pearl Finish
8 × 10 in
Days of Harvest 9 (Set of 9)
2025
Salted Paper Print from Medium Format Negatives on Watercolour Paper
4.53 × 4.53 in
Through the Olive Trees - From the bordering village of Turtuk
2025
Silver Gelatin Print, Pearl Finish
7 × 9.5 in
Bardo
2025
Silver Gelatin Print, Pearl Finish
8 × 8 in
Forgotten Realms
2025
Silver Gelatin Print, Pearl Finish
8.27 × 11.69 in
From the Trade Routes
2025
Cyanotype Print on Arches Aquarelle 300g Watercolour Paper
8.27 × 11.69 in
Lha lChang - The Forgotten Tree
2025
Toned Cyanotype on Arches Aquarelle 300g Watercolour Paper
13 × 15 in
Days of Harvest 6 (Set of 9)
2025
Salted Paper Print from Medium Format Negatives on Watercolour Paper
4.53 × 4.53 in
Carriers of Yak Shing
2025
Silver Gelatin Print, Pearl Finish on Ilford Multigrade Paper
11 × 14 in
Rock Formations (2 Copies)
2024
Silver Gelatin Print on Resin-Coated Paper and Fibre-Based Paper
8 × 7.5 in
Where Do Old Trees Go to Die (Part 2)
2024
Image Made with a Large Format Camera and X-Ray Negative
7.5 × 9.5 in
Sacred Scapes
2025
Oroxylum Indicum Seeds Placed on Silver Gelatin Print, Pearl Finish
8 × 8 in
Days of Harvest 3 (Set of 9)
2025
Salted Paper Print from Medium Format Negatives on Watercolour Paper
4.53 × 4.53 in
From the land of Rocks - Likir, Ladakh
2025
Silver Gelatin Print, Pearl Finish
8 × 8 in
The Little Monk
2023
Walnut-Toned Cyanotype
5 × 5 in
Amaley
2024
Cyanotype Toned with a Local Flowering Plant Named Sporolo
6.5 × 8 in
Weight of Wool
15 December 2025
Toned Cyanotype Print on Watercolour Paper
35 × 35 in (49 Tiles, Each 5 × 5 in)
An Autumn's Tale
2025
Silver Gelatin Print, Pearl Finish
8 × 10 in
Entangled Memories
2025
Yak Hair Placed on Cyanotype
8.5 × 6 in
Shades of Clay
2026
Four layer Gum print using pigments
11 x 14 in
Winter Mornings - Likir, Ladakh
2025
Tea-Toned Cyanotype
7.5 × 5.5 in
Inside Monastery Kitchen
2025
Silver Gelatin Print, Pearl Finish
8 × 8 in
Orchard of Dreams (2 editions)
2025
Silver Gelatin Print, Pearl Finish
5.83 × 8.27 in
Reminiscence
2025
Walnut-Toned Cyanotype With Sheep Placed on the Image
8.27 × 11.69 in
The Protectors
2025
Tri Colour Gum Print
6.5 × 8 in