CONTACT

NEW YORK CITY (646) 522-1099 ashok@ashoksinha.com

ABOUT

Born in Calcutta, Ashok Sinha is an American filmmaker and photographer who shoots lifestyle and creative culture though a contemporary architectural lens. Before he pursued an art career based out of New York City, Ashok programmed telecom satellites for the U.S. government after graduating from Columbia University, left behind a second career in advertising, and eventually settled in Manhattan, where he now lives with his wife and daughter in a town house on the East Side. On the centennial of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s voyage, Ashok crossed the Drake Passage to Antarctica on an icebreaker ship, photographing for the National Geographic Image Collection and fell for modern design on a travel assignment documenting Oscar Niemeyer’s architecture in Rio de Janeiro. His timeless images capture a sense of place. He recently drove 2,500 miles shooting Gas and Glamour, an art book of Los Angeles roadside buildings from the golden age of car culture. It was chosen by both The Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Magazine as a top photo book in 2020, and The Guardian review called it “easy to get lost in nostalgia, and even escapism, looking at Sinha’s photographs.” As a cinematographer and certified drone pilot, he produces documentary videos for Story Font Studio. His 2019 Sticker City short was featured by Amazon’s All Voices festival and Pigeon Kings of Brooklyn screened at the Syfy Brooklyn Bridge Park film festival in 2015. A decade of experience in digital media allows him to collaborate creatively with clients. He serves as a co-chair of the Marketing + Communications Committee at AIA New York, and his studio is a certified New York City Minority Business Enterprise (MBE). In 2010, he founded the Cartwheel Initiative photography nonprofit to empower at-risk youth through visual storytelling.

AWARDS

Architecture Masterprize Photography, Best of Best, 2021 American Institute of Architects Los Angeles Architectural Photography Awards, 2021 Society of Publication Designers SPD 56, 2021 American Society of Media Photographers, Best Of 2012 & 2015 American Photography 31, 2015 American Photographic Artists Awards, 2015 Photo District News World In Focus, 2014 International Photography Awards, 2011 Lucie Foundation Scholarship Shortlist, 2010 Association of Photographers UK Open, 2009

EXHIBITIONS

2021 Fall Transformation, Front Room Gallery, New York, NY Holiday Haus Warming, Front Room Gallery, New York, NY Holiday Hues & Blues, treat Gallery, New York, NY Affordable Art Fair, treat Gallery, New York, NY 2020 Americans Looking In, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY Gas and Glamour, Ron Herman Japan, Tokyo, Japan Verdant, Front Room Gallery, New York, NY Vital Force: Water Essential, Front Room Gallery, New York, NY America in Photographs, Front Room Gallery, New York, NY Kehrer Verlag @ Photo London, London, UK 2019 Urban Dance, The Plaxall Gallery, Queens, NY To Take Flight, 222 Bowery Art, New York, NY Summer Sampler, Front Room Gallery, New York, NY FR 20, Part I: The Environment in Contemporary Photography, Front Room Gallery, New York, NY ASMP @ Aqua Art, Miami, FL ASMP @ The Photography Show by AIPAD, New York, NY 2018 Strata, two person exhibition of aerial photographs, Front Room Gallery, New York, NY HOME, Augusta Savage Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA Benefit Auction, Little Red School House & Elisabeth Irwin HS, Pace Gallery, New York 2017 International Photo Exhibition 160, Royal Photographic Society, London At Scale, two person exhibition of aerial photographs, Sherle Wagner Gallery, Dallas, Texas Art & Oppression, Santa Fe University of Art & Design, New Mexico Other Art Fair by Saatchi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2016 Elte X Uprise, ELTE Mkt Gallery, Toronto, Canada Art in Architecture, Darkroom Gallery, Essex Jct., Vermont 2015 Portraits, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO War & Peace, Darkroom Gallery, Essex Jct., Vermont 2014 Drift, Citigroup Center, New York, NY Faces, Darkroom Gallery, Essex Jct., Vermont Illusive Self, Taller Boricua Gallery, New York, NY 2013 Rising Waters: Hurricane Sandy, Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY Illusive Self, Taller Boricua Gallery, New York, NY Portraits, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO The (Un)Fair Art Exhibition, New York, NY Curate NYC, Online Gallery Exhibition Benefit Auction, Housing Works’ Design on a Dime, New York, NY Affordable Art Fair, Uprise Art, New York, NY 2012 Home, Umbrella Arts Gallery, New York, NY Uprise Art, Chelsea Market Concourse, New York, NY Benefit Auction, Housing Works' Design on a Dime, New York, NY Benefit Auction, Family Dynamics, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY 2011 Exacting Proportion, Mixed Greens Gallery, New York, NY Portraits, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO Faces of the Economy, Art for Change Gallery, New York, NY Dinner, Umbrella Arts Gallery, New York, NY Meeting of the Art Waters, Wilkes-Barre, PA 2010 WoRK, New Orleans Photo Alliance, New Orleans, LA The Work Office, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York Artists for Advocacy, Coalition for Asian American Children & Families, New York, NY Benefit Auction, Young Photographers Alliance, New York, NY 2009 Association of Photographers (UK) Open Awards Exhibition, AOP Gallery, London