Sonal Kantaria is a visual artist based in London. She holds a Masters in Photojournalism from the University of Westminster and is currently undertaking a PhD in Film Studies at King's College London. Her work has been exhibited extensively in the UK and internationally, shown at the Whitechapel Gallery, the Ikon Gallery, the Photographers' Gallery, Autograph ABP, and the Perth Centre for Photography.
Her project Naseeb: Trafficked incorporates stills and moving footage and takes an intimate look into the dramatic stories of young Indian women who have been kidnapped or sold into prostitution and subsequently rescued from the brothels of Mumbai and Calcutta. The work brings into sharp focus the gender, economic, and class disenfranchisement that has coerced millions of Indian women into the flesh trade. It was shown as a solo exhibition at the Perth Centre for Photography in 2013 and by Next Level Projects in London, presented by Autograph ABP in 2012.
She has completed artist residencies at the Perth Institute for Contemporary Art, the Perth Centre for Photography, and with the City of Greater Geraldton in Western Australia, where she was commissioned to teach photography to Aboriginal teenagers and to facilitate a refugee settlement project at Curtin University.
