Seema Khalique is a photography and moving image artist. Her work explores ideas of memory, identity and personal history through documentary and portraiture.
Khalique studied BA Media, Culture and Communications and also taught Media, Film and Photography.
In 2019 she studied on the Magnum Intensive Documentary Photography Course at the University of the Arts London which inspired her to focus her work autobiographically.
Her photographic series ‘Ma’ was selected for the London Open 2022 and exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery.
She has been published in ‘The London Open 2022’, ‘Photomonitor’, ‘From Sylhet to Spitalfield’ and zines ‘Ma’ & ‘Lost in the Soot’.
In 2023 Khalique curated ‘About Then’ a photographic exhibition that exhibits the work of 5 artists including her work ‘Lost in the Soot’ at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London.
Khalique’s current on going work ‘Londoni Memoirs’ which was also shortlisted for the An Indian Summer Open 2022 – Women Behind the Lens was supported in artist residency at Four Corners and funded by the Westfield Fund.
Seema is a London based photographer and is available for commissions.
Lost in the Soot
Lost in the Soot is a documentation of our home that was decimated by a fire.
Londoni Memoirs
Londoni Memoirs’ is a collection of stories, visual archive, ephemera and portraits on reflections of Bangladeshi migrants of the 50’s - 70’s.
Ma (Mother)
‘Ma’ (Mother) is a series of photographic portraits of Hijras living in Bangladesh. Hijra’s are people of the Third Gender, neither identifying themselves as male or female.
About Then
This exhibition is an excavation of the artist’s memories resulting in a showcase of intimate works on the transformative effect our personal and shared recollections of landscapes, communities, faith and grief.
Curator Seema Khalique
Reviewed by British Journal of Photography
