Lecture

Dev Dhunsi - Artists' Publishing

"I want photographs to feel contaminated by reality, as if the world had physically entered the surface of the image and started reorganising it from within"

As the recipient of the Nordic Photobook Award 2024, Dev Dhunsi's photobook Mixed is a vivid and inquisitive exploration of identity. In Norway, where no equivalent word for ‘mixed’ exists, Dhunsi uses photography and text to give form to experiences that language has yet to name, confronting how belonging, visibility, and love are shaped by race, gender, and desire.

Composed of photographs, archival fragments, and text, the book unfolds as a hybrid work where tenderness and defiance, intimacy and displacement coexist. Through layering and juxtaposition, it presents a complex vision of identity that is both personal and collective, transforming hybridity from conflict into creation.

Dev Dhunsi (b. 1996) is a Norwegian–Indian artist living and working between Oslo and Punjab. He holds an MFA from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm (2024) and a BFA from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Recent solo exhibitions include Unmistakably You at Nitja Centre for Contemporary Art, Lillestrøm (2026), presented in conjunction with the release of his publication Mixed (SPBH Editions / Mack Books); as well as Encircling Stories at the Centre for Photography, Stockholm (2024), following its initial presentation at MELK, Oslo. His work has also been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb during Organ Vida 13th Festival and FUTURES Photography.

This lecture is part of Grafikk artists' publishing course delivered by Associate Professor Victoria Browne.

More info about the artist

https://devdhunsi.com/
https://fotogalleriet.no/
https://mackbooks.co.uk/collections/spbh-editions