Professor Sabeena Gadihoke began teaching at the AJK MCRC in 1990. She has a PhD from the School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU and completed her Bachelor’s in History at Delhi University and a Master’s in Mass Communication at the AJK MCRC. She has been a Fulbright Fellow at Syracuse University (1995-6) and has been a recipient of grants from the Charles Wallace Trust, UK, India Foundation for the Arts Bangalore, Pro Helvetica, the Swiss Arts Council and the Majlis Foundation, Mumbai for her research.

Gadihoke has been an independent documentary filmmaker and cameraperson with over two decades of production experience. Her film Three Women and a Camera won awards at the Film South Asia at Kathmandu (1999) and at the Mumbai International Film Festival (2000) She has shot numerous documentaries as a camerawoman including the much-circulated Tales of the Night Fairies (Shohini Ghosh, 2002). Prior to starting her career as an academic, she worked as a producer of educational films at the MCRC where she directed and edited several educational films and documentaries for the UGC Country-wide classroom project. She is also a founder-member of Mediastorm, an independent video collective that made three films and received the Chameli Devi award for outstanding women journalists during 1992 and the Communal Harmony Award from the Committee for Communal Harmony, Understanding and Fraternity in 1988.

She has written extensively on Indian photography and her book Camera Chronicles of Homai Vyarawalla (Mapin/Parzor Foundation) on India’s first woman press photographer was published in 2006, with a second edition in 2010. Gadihoke has published in peer reviewed national and international journals and books and is currently a member of the editorial committee of the international journal Trans Asia Photography (Duke University Press). Her research interests focus on the intersection of the still and moving image, and she has written on contemporary documentary, meta-histories of photography, visual popular culture, and female stardom in Bombay cinema.  She has delivered talks and presented papers at the Tate Modern in London, the universities of Westminister, Bristol, Farnham, SOAS and the Royal Holloway in the UK, the Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich, La Trobe university, Melbourne, the university of Witwaterstrand, Johannesburg, the Rubin Museum of Art, NY, the Sackler Museum, Harvard, Brown and North Western Universities in the United States, Toronto university and most recently at the Metropolitan Organization of Museum of Visual Arts (MOMUS), Thessaloniki, Greece (2024). Her academic publications can be accessed at https://jmi.academia.edu/SGadihoke

Gadihoke is also a photo historian and curator, and her recent projects include Twin Sisters with Cameras: An Exhibition of photographs by Debalina Mazumder and Manobina Roy (co-curated) at the India International Centre Delhi, The Centre for the Study of Social Studies Kolkata, the Bangalore International Cente, The State Lalit Kala Academi, Lucknow and the Indian Photo Festival at Hyderabad (2022-24). She has also curated Light Works, a retrospective of photographer Jitendra Arya, at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai and Bangalore (2017-2018), co-curated a show on photographer Kulwant Roy at the Indira Gandhi Centre for the Arts (2008) and curated several shows on Homai Vyarawalla including a retrospective at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Delhi, Bombay and Bangalore (2010-2011).