Debashish Chakrabarty

Debashish Chakrabarty is a Bangladeshi visual artist and author based in Dhaka, whose work interweaves art, science, and social inquiry. A photography graduate of Pathshala South Asian Media Institute, his practice examines power structures, state mechanisms, and civil imagination through optical, photographic, and drawing techniques. Debashish explores the plasticity of the human mind using image-based narratives that probe human conditions and political realities. His work has been showcased internationally—across Asia, North America, and Europe—including the Delhi Photo Festival, New York’s Transitions: New Photography from Bangladesh, Chobi Mela, Serendipity Arts Festival, Berlin’s Connections, and exhibitions in Cambridge, Germany, and Dhaka. Recent solo work centers on public uprisings and cultural memory in Bangladesh.