14 Facts About Pablo Bartholomew

Pablo Bartholomew was born on 1955 and is an Indian photojournalist and an independent photographer based in New Delhi, India.

Pablo Bartholomew is noted for his photography, as an educator running photography workshops, and as manager of MediaWeb, a software company specialising in photo database services and server-based digital archiving systems.

Pablo Bartholomew was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2013.

The older of two siblings, Bartholomew was born on 18 December 1955 in New Delhi, India.

Pablo Bartholomew's father, Richard Bartholomew was a Burmese refugee who settled in the Indian capital and who came to be one of the country's leading art critics, as well as a painter, poet, and photographer.

Pablo Bartholomew's mother, Rati Batra, a Partition refugee, was a well-known theatre activist and one of the founding members of Yatrik, a theatre company established in 1964.

Pablo Bartholomew studied at Modern School, where his father taught English.

Pablo Bartholomew abandoned his schooling in Class Nine, adopting the camera instead.

From 1984 until 2000, Pablo Bartholomew was represented by the French-American news photo agency, Gamma Liaison during which time he primarily covered conflicts and developments in the South Asian region.

Pablo Bartholomew's photographs were published in New York Times, Newsweek, Time, Business Week, National Geographic, GEO, Der Spiegel, Figaro, Paris Match, The Telegraph, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Guardian, and Observer Magazine, among others.

Pablo Bartholomew was awarded the World Press Photo of the Year in 1985 for his iconic image of a half-buried child victim of the Bhopal disaster.

Pablo Bartholomew had his first photography lessons at home, in his father's darkroom.

Pablo Bartholomew first exhibited photographs from this body of work at Art Heritage Gallery, New Delhi, in 1979, and at the Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay, in 1980.

Pablo Bartholomew has held a number of fellowships, including one from the Asian Cultural Council, New York, to photograph Indian immigrants in the USA, and one from the Institute of Comparative Studies in Human Culture, Norway, to photograph the Naga tribes in India.