Cheryl Mukherji (b. 1995, India) is a visual artist and writer currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated with an MFA in Advanced Photographic Studies from the International Center of Photography-Bard College, New York in 2020. In her current work, Cheryl explores the idea of origin and inheritance, which is embedded in the figure of her mother and her presence in the family album. It deals with memory, personal history, transgenerational trauma, and how they inform identity. Cheryl primarily works with photography, text, and video. 

Cheryl has been selected as a finalist for the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2022 at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian. She has been the recipient of Capture Photography Festival’s Writing Prize 2020, Brooklyn Museum’s #Your2020Portrait Award, South Asian Arts Resiliency Fund (SAARF) 2020, Firecracker Photography Grant 2020, and was a finalist for the Dorthea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize 2020. Her work has been exhibited at the Minnesota Museum of American Art (US), Huxley-Parlour Gallery (UK), Format Photo Festival (UK), Brooklyn Museum (US), Museum of Moving Image (US), International Center of Photography (US), Serendipity Arts Festival (IN), among others.

Esa Epstein is an archivist, curator, and director of sepiaEYE gallery (2009). The gallery is dedicated to showing a spectrum of modern and contemporary photography and video work from Asia. As a curator, many of her exhibitions have been mounted in museums & galleries internationally and have been reviewed in numerous publications, most notably, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New York Sun, ARTnews, and Art in America.

Epstein has published nine titles on photography and museum studies. Her most recent essay on Pamela Singh, Une historie Mondiale: des Femmes Photographes (Les Editions Textuel, 2020) will be out in English (Thames & Hudson, 2021). An upcoming monograph of Annu Palakunnathu Matthew will be published (Minor Matters/sepiaEYE) in 2022.

sepiaEYE artists have gained critical acclaim and international recognition, and their works are included in major European & US museum collections and private collections.

In her former role as the Executive Director of Sepia International and The Alkazi Collection (1995-2009), Epstein helped build an impressive collection of Indian photography and photographic history. She continues to offers her expertise in this area to advise both private and public collection acquisitions.