- Following 1.2K
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- Engagement 5.39%
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About Sujata Setia
Sujata Setia (@sujatasetia) is an Artist creator on Instagram, also filed under Art & DIY. The account has 8,897 followers and 138 published posts. Recent posts average 464 likes and 56 comments, an engagement rate of 5.39%.
Sujata Setia belongs to the nano tier, the band usually drawn between 1,000 and 10,000 followers. Sujata Setia follows 1,185 accounts, so the audience is roughly 7.5 times the size of the list followed. Sujata Setia uses an Instagram professional account. Flinque files Sujata Setia under Artist, with Art & DIY as a secondary category.
The Instagram bio for Sujata Setia runs to 11 words. The bio mentions @wellcomephotoprize, @worldphotoorg, @bjp1854 and @lensculture. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Sujata Setia dates from July 2025.
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138 Posts
Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Sujata Setia, 6 are carousels, 2 are single images and 2 are videos. That mix leans toward carousels. 138 published posts give Sujata Setia a moderate archive on Instagram. Against the audience, that is roughly 64 followers for each post published. Sujata Setia also keeps 1 story highlight on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 140 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include abuse, survivor, conference, share and project. The captions tag #aikoikemura, #chloelocatelli and #wpp25.
This idea was born during my residency at WERESTART two years ago, as I spent time sitting with my own history while also listening to another survivor.
Out of those conversations came a tiny origami sculpture, built upon the image of a survivor printed on A4 paper. A beginning...
For the next two years, I carried this proposal from one open call to another. It received more rejections than I can remember. I don’t know how I managed to hold immense dejection, a deep sense of failure and unimaginable hope all at once.
Eventually, I brought the proposal back to Cristina & Ciara at WERESTART. They held it with the same care and belief that had allowed it to emerge in the first place.
Together, we applied for this grant.
I know the work will change once the conversations begin, as its form will emerge through creative collaboration with adult South Asian survivors of childhood abuse & trauma.
To be very honest, it is not the act of “winning” the funding that I am celebrating today. Instead, I am celebrating the possibility that a survivor who has lived with an experience for thirty or forty years might, through this project, encounter it differently. Not necessarily by “disclosing” it publicly, but by finding a way to acknowledge it, shape it, or simply sit beside it.
This is not a one-off project. Nor is it a project that begins so it can end. It is a body of work I hope to continue across different geographies and through different collaborations, because childhood trauma and abuse is a silent pandemic that leaves its footprint across several generations…
My heartfelt thanks to for making this possible, to for believing in this project from its very first beginnings, and to Cristina and Ciara for seeing the possibility in an idea that refused to disappear.
I look forward to sharing this journey with you.
Not: What society should do?
But: What has society failed to see?
While I think through my presentation I went back to the question of “language” and why it matters.
I will share Women and the Workplace, a collaborative visual project developed with Kashmiri embroidery artisans in partnership with Dr Kamini Gupta (King’s College London). The project becomes my entry point into a wider question: what does it require to represent the “Other” without reproducing othering?
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On 26th June I will be speaking at the University of Greater Manchester at “Creature, Stranger, Monster, Other: A Photography Conference”. You are cordially invited. Link to register for free is
Kashmir is a conflict geography shaped by layered marginalisation: political precarity, economic insecurity, and the compounded vulnerabilities of women living within militarised everyday life. Entering this context as a lens-based artist required several uncomfortable reckonings. Even as someone familiar with othering, I was not “the other” in the room: I arrived with privilege, and with inherited Western assumptions about participatory practice namely, visible co-authorship, articulated preference, and creative “choice.” On the ground, I encountered something else: silence, deferral, repetition, and pragmatism; not as absence, but as a condition shaped by history.
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On 26th June I will be speaking at the University of Greater Manchester at “Creature, Stranger, Monster, Other: A Photography Conference”. You are cordially invited. Link to register for free is
Through lived fieldwork and co-making, the project forced a recalibration of core ethical frameworks. If a process does not look participatory by Western paradigms, is it automatically extractive? Should silence be respected even when it preserves erasure? When the holder of a story does not seek archiving, is
The Hyman Collection is pleased to have acquired a major work by Sujata Setia from her important series “A Thousand Cuts”.
We were incredibly moved by this powerful collaborative series in which Sujata Setia and survivors work together to study patterns of domestic abuse within South Asian communities. Each image is accompanied by the survivor’s own words and each photograph is painstakingly cut.
Artist Sujata Setia, herself a survivor of gender-based abuse, worked in close collaboration with the charity SHEWISE and a group of volunteers who participated in the project. The portraits depict the stories of these survivors as they chose to be seen. After taking the photographs, Setia used the Indian paper-cutting art form of Sanjhi to maintain the women’s anonymity.
Sujata has written that “health cannot be separated from the histories that shape it” and that “domestic abuse is never a singular event; it leaves a direct, trans-generational imprint on both mental and physical health. As a child who grew up in a home where violence was a daily occurrence, I carry that trauma like another limb... Domestic abuse is one of the most widespread global crimes; and yet remains among the least publicly acknowledged health crises. I hope this... becomes a catalyst for deeper dialogue and scholarship around the interrelation between domestic abuse and health. That is our collective hope.”
Was lovely meeting #aikoikemura-amaral and #chloelocatelli thank you for your help.
Thoughtfully designed by, the book brings together a wide range of voices across disciplines, including Nobel laureate economist Abhijit Banerjee, writer and journalist Aatish Taseer, and visual artists such as Mithu Sen to explore the many meanings of “taste” across culture, art, and everyday life.
My contribution examines how representations of abuse, when centred on the survivor, are often received as “unpalatable”. It reflects on how aesthetic judgment operates as a cultural filter, shaping what is valued and what is trivialised.
Grateful to be part of this layered and visually striking publication.
The three winners receive £10,000 prize money that will be instrumental for us to make works each one of us are hungry to make.
But beyond the tangible reward also, This is a monumental recognition. A Thousand Cuts winning the Wellcome Photography Prize affirms that health cannot be separated from the histories that shape it.
And that domestic abuse is never a singular event; it leaves a direct, trans-generational imprint on both mental and physical health.
As a child who grew up in a home where violence was a daily occurrence, I carry that trauma like another limb.
This recognition validates not just my story, but the invisible, intangible, yet deeply scarring legacy of gender-based abuse.
Domestic abuse is one of the most widespread global crimes; and yet remains among the least publicly acknowledged health crises.
I hope this moment becomes a catalyst for deeper dialogue and scholarship around the interrelation between domestic abuse and health. That is our collective hope.
#wpp25
Please do visit the awards exhibition at from 17th July to 18th October 2025.
Thank you so much my beautiful sisters - the survivors, and and ofcourse for supporting the printing of the original artworks. I am forever indebted.
Thanks a lot for facilitating this opportunity and also to
Please do hit up the link in my stories to read the interview. Thanks so much and each and every survivor.
Sujata Setia's engagement
Sujata Setia's engagement rate on Instagram is 5.39%, between 3% and 6%, or 3 to 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 19 followers. Comments stay close to likes on Sujata Setia's posts, at 464 likes and 56 comments on average, about 8.3 likes per comment.
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5.39%
- Avg likes
- 464
- Avg comments
- 56
- Interactions : followers
- 1 : 19
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Who is Sujata Setia?
Sujata Setia (@sujatasetia) is an Artist creator on Instagram, also filed under Art & DIY. Sujata Setia uses an Instagram professional account. The Instagram bio for Sujata Setia runs to 11 words.
How many followers does Sujata Setia have?
Sujata Setia has 8,897 followers on Instagram (8.9K). Sujata Setia follows 1,185 accounts, so the audience is roughly 7.5 times the size of the list followed. 138 published posts give Sujata Setia a moderate archive on Instagram.
What is Sujata Setia's engagement rate?
Sujata Setia's engagement rate on Instagram is 5.39%, between 3% and 6%, or 3 to 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 19 followers. Comments stay close to likes on Sujata Setia's posts, at 464 likes and 56 comments on average, about 8.3 likes per comment.
What does Sujata Setia post about on Instagram?
Flinque files Sujata Setia under Artist, with Art & DIY as a secondary category. Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Sujata Setia, 6 are carousels, 2 are single images and 2 are videos. The 10 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for Sujata Setia repeatedly use the words abuse, survivor, conference, share and project. Sujata Setia's captions carry hashtags such as #aikoikemura, #chloelocatelli and #wpp25. Sujata Setia writes those captions mainly in English. Sujata Setia keeps 1 story highlight, which open with a free Flinque account.
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