Shweta Bist
Resides in New York City, USA
A Covid Family Portrait, 2021
Digital Color Photograph
Shweta Bist
Shweta Bist is a South Asian American photographer born and raised in New Delhi, India. Bist’s professional career began in the financial sector but assumed a creative direction after becoming a mother of two. Presently, Bist has a self-directed practice and works from her studio at home in New York City. “My work is informed by personal narrative and deeply rooted in my identity as a woman and a mother. I stage conceptual photographs to urge the viewer to contemplate the complexities of the maternal experience in its ambivalent entirety; and contribute to a narrative about the lives of women and their children, told from their perspectives.”
