ABOUT
Pretika Menon is a photographer and filmmaker whose work moves between intimacy and observation, tracing the quiet, complex relationships between people, place, and time.
Rooted in a deeply personal gaze, her images explore memory, matrilineal labor, and the emotional architectures of everyday life.
Her works span beyond a decade, traversing between fashion editorial and social commentary. She has worked for leading brands like Apple, Nike and Gucci, and been featured in major fashion editorials nationally and internationally, including Vogue Italia, Dazed, Architectural Digest, Condenast India, Verve, Dazed, Fcucking Young and Platform Magazine, to name a few.
Pretika received the PhMuseum Women Photographers Grant 2023
and the Umrao Singh Sher-Gil Grant for Photography 2023 for Dhon (Two).
She is an educator at Istituto Marangoni Mumbai, where she teaches global trends in photography.
Pretika continues to develop her own artistic style in Goa.
Menon’s recent foray into film and performance extends her photographic ethos into movement, maintaining her focus on gesture, atmosphere, and the emotional residue of the real.
Her ongoing personal project, ‘Dhon (Two)’, was awarded both the PhMuseum Women Photographers Grant 2023 and the Umrao Singh Sher-Gil Grant for Photography in 2023.
Her photo essay “Swimming in Plain Sight: A Photo-essay on bodies and swimwear” was published as part of a collective book “The Postcolonial Sporting Body: Contemporary Indian Investigations” a research into the sociology of sport in contemporary India.
Pretika has attended the Resting Academy, an international photography program by Patshala Institute, Dhaka (2026-2026)
She attended the Angkor Photo Workshop (Siem Reap, 2024)
She was selected for a darkroom workshop by Srinivas Kuruganti, funded by the Murthy Nayak Foundation (Delhi, 2021)
Participated in an online residency funded by Vogue Italia (2022)
Featured in Kidz Paris (2022), an art book spotlighting 50 global creatives
Featured in Proud South (2023), a global index by Dutch trend forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort, mapping creative practices in the Global South
SELECT EXHIBITIONS:
Her works span beyond a decade, traversing between fashion editorial and social commentary. She has worked for leading brands like Apple, Nike and Gucci, and been featured in major fashion editorials nationally and internationally, including Vogue Italia, Dazed, Architectural Digest, Condenast India, Verve, Dazed, Fcucking Young and Platform Magazine, to name a few.
Pretika received the PhMuseum Women Photographers Grant 2023
and the Umrao Singh Sher-Gil Grant for Photography 2023 for Dhon (Two).
She is an educator at Istituto Marangoni Mumbai, where she teaches global trends in photography.
Pretika continues to develop her own artistic style in Goa.
Menon’s recent foray into film and performance extends her photographic ethos into movement, maintaining her focus on gesture, atmosphere, and the emotional residue of the real.
Her ongoing personal project, ‘Dhon (Two)’, was awarded both the PhMuseum Women Photographers Grant 2023 and the Umrao Singh Sher-Gil Grant for Photography in 2023.
Her photo essay “Swimming in Plain Sight: A Photo-essay on bodies and swimwear” was published as part of a collective book “The Postcolonial Sporting Body: Contemporary Indian Investigations” a research into the sociology of sport in contemporary India.
Pretika has attended the Resting Academy, an international photography program by Patshala Institute, Dhaka (2026-2026)
She attended the Angkor Photo Workshop (Siem Reap, 2024)
She was selected for a darkroom workshop by Srinivas Kuruganti, funded by the Murthy Nayak Foundation (Delhi, 2021)
Participated in an online residency funded by Vogue Italia (2022)
Featured in Kidz Paris (2022), an art book spotlighting 50 global creatives
Featured in Proud South (2023), a global index by Dutch trend forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort, mapping creative practices in the Global South
SELECT EXHIBITIONS:
- ‘Every thing leaks’ Group Show Curated by Neighbour HQ at Dutch Warehouse, Fort Kochi, 12.12.2025 to 31.03.2025
- Dhon photobook dummy, curated by Offset Projects, at Chennai Photo Biennale, 2025
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Dhon, curated by Goa Familia at Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa, 2024
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Dhon, curated by Prashant Panjiar at Goa Open Arts Festival, Goa, 2024
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Archetypes of Freedom, PhotoVogue Festival, Milan, 2023
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Gundi Studios x Pretika Menon at Method Gallery, Mumbai, 2020
- Group show at Chennai Photo Biennale, 2013