Kirti Fatania-Bassendine is a California-based fine art photographer and documentarian with a BA Honors in Fine Art Photography from Derby University, England.
She weaves still photography and videography to tell cultural stories, including the importance of reconnecting with indigenous cultural roots and passing culture to the next generation. Her work also focuses on homelessness, women's sense of identity and belonging, nomadic ways of life, and human-ecological relationships in the US Southwest.
Her most recent project is Contemporary Indigenous Voices of California’s South Coast Range, a traveling exhibition of portraits, personal narratives and short films which document ten indigenous tribal groups in the Bay Area to highlight their cultural connections with their ancestral lands and related contemporary topics such as rematriation of land and climate change.
She also recently worked on the Martin Luther King Artist Residency in Palo Alto, producing a public art piece focusing on housing insecurity and renters' sense of belonging.
Other recent projects include Homeless Voices and Just Like You.
Her first exhibitions Voiceless and Brave New World examined the expected role of a young Indian girl growing up in the Western world, surrounded by two cultures, also exploring their dreams and aspirations for their daughters.
