Swapan Parekh is an Indian photographer and visual artist, born in 1966. He is the son of the photojournalist Kishor Parekh. When his father died on assignment in 1982, the sixteen-year-old picked up a camera.
His early years were spent in documentary photography and journalism, including a stint at the International Center of Photography. He later brought that vocabulary into Indian print advertising, with an approach he calls “orchestrated realisms”. Alongside, he has kept making personal work from his everyday life.
His work has been recognised in documentary, advertising and personal photography. He has won a World Press Photo award and served on its jury several times, and he exhibited his personal work Between Me & I at Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam. In 2025 he self-published A Little Peace On Earth That’s Mine, 120 tritone photographs of the people and places closest to him.
