"The voyage of discovery lies not in finding new landscapes, but in finding new eyes."-Marcel Proust
Waswo X. Waswo studied at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, The Milwaukee Center for Photography, and Studio Marangoni, The Centre for Contemporary Photography in Florence, Italy. His books include India Poems: The Photographs, published by Gallerie Publishers in 2006, Men of Rajasthan, published by Serindia Contemporary in 2011 (hardcover 2014), Photowallah published by Tasveer, India, in 2016, Gauri Dancers, Mapin, 2019 and Karkhana: A Studio in Rajasthan, Mapin, 2022. Waswo’s photographic self-portraiture and miniature paintings have been a tactic of mild humour employed to signal the self-awareness of his practice. He has had a long history of collaborating with traditional miniature painters where he lives, in Udaipur, Rajasthan. He currently collaborates with Dalpat Jingar, Shankar Kumawat and Chirag Kumawat.