Devanshi Asher (b. 1996) is a documentary storyteller, visual artist and creative entrepreneur working across photography, filmmaking, writing, research and participatory education.
At the core of her practice is a belief in the transformative power of coming together through stories, conversations and acts of creative solidarity.
Much of her practice has grown from years of working across the Himalayan region, where she has collaborated with women, indigenous communities and grassroots organisations. Rooted in collaboration and care, her work explores gendered experiences, climate change, collective memory and cultural preservation, with a particular interest in how people negotiate changing relationships with land, identity and community. Her work has taken her from remote Himalayan settlements to galleries, classrooms, community spaces and commercial sets. She has made documentary films, photo essays, music videos and social campaigns, but the format is usually secondary to the question: how do we tell a story without taking it away from the person who lived it?
Alongside her image-making practice, she develops visual literacy workshops that use photography and creative visual tools for critical thinking, self-expression, collective learning and advocacy in an increasingly digital, image-driven age.
Devanshi holds a BA in Filmmaking from Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, and an MA in Documentary Photography and Photojournalism from the University of the Arts London, where she graduated with distinction. She was also awarded a full scholarship at Naropa Fellowship in Ladakh, an alternative residential programme funded by Hemis Monastery, Ladakh and Ashoka University, where she focused on the intersection of creative practice, community development and circular economy.
Have a story worth exploring? A question worth asking? A project that needs a different way of seeing? Let’s make something together.
