Making and Unmaking Talismans - Harit Srikhao

Harit Srikhao began his career young. In fact he was only a sixteen year old high school student when he attended Antoine D’Agata’s renowned (and infamous) workshop at the Angkor Photo Festival in Cambodia. The experience was deeply foundational for the young artist, and in the decade that has followed, Harit’s work has evolved to be genre-defying in almost every sense of the word. But the visual world had always been a deep resource for Harit, even before he began a more intentional practice as an artist. Looking through his prolific journey, it becomes clear that the seeds of the questions that have occupied him were planted early. But it also becomes clear that the act of making – whether they were photographs of his friends and classmates as a young adolescent, or the complex, multilayered imagery from his more recent work – has been of critical value to Harit as an individual, underneath his work as an artist.