CULTURAL-CONSERVATION AND FINE-ART PHOTOGRAPHER AND FILMMAKER SEJ SARAIYA

Sej Saraiya is an award-winning ethnographic and fine-art photographer and filmmaker with a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Southern California. She has spent the last several years traveling to the deep interiors of Asia and the Americas, capturing images that tell stories of remote and at-risk cultures.

She speaks in a variety of forums, holds workshops, and moderates or contributes to panels at universities, museums and festivals. Her photographs have been exhibited both in America and India and hang in the homes of private collectors in Belgium, Switzerland, Australia, India, Germany, South Africa, Canada and the United States. She is a member of the American Photographic Artists (APA) and currently resides in Topanga, CA.

“The reason I photograph is to experience and share human existence beyond the precinct of words. It takes an adventurous spirit to venture out to the farthest corners of this earth, but those handful who do are obliged to bring back the stories that haven’t been heard, to shine light on the responsibilities that come with sharing a planet—the importance and urgency of which I portray through my photographs.”