Pablo Bartholomew
Pablo Bartholomew is a self-taught photographer. His photojournalism (1983-2004) has been featured in every major international publication, winning him the World Press Photo award thrice.

Since 2005 he has been revisiting his father, Richard Bartholomew’s archive. In 2008, he co-conceived the photo book and exhibition A Critic’s Eye. In 2012, he self-published The Art Critic, a 640-page selection of his father’s writing on modern Indian art.

Richard Lawrence Bartholomew: (1926–1985),
Art Critic, Photographer, Poet, Painter
Richard Bartholomew escaped from Burma around the time of the Japanese invasion during the Second World War and made New Delhi his home. Here, he earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in English Literature, after which he began his career as a full-time art critic writing for various newspapers, journals, and magazines. His creative writing includes poems and short stories published frequently in journals like Thought and Illustrated Weekly of India. As a painter, he held one-person shows in New Delhi and Bombay in the 1950s and 60s. He recorded life around him as a photographer, including his family and artist friends. A Critic’s Eye, a selection of his photographs, was exhibited at Sepia Gallery, New York, in 2008; at PHOTOINK, New Delhi, in January 2009; at Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai, in 2010; at Harrington Street Arts Centre, Kolkata, in 2010; and at Fishbar Gallery, London, in 2011.

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