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Dr. Unni Krishnan Pulikkal S. (Unni Pulikkal S.) is an Indian multidisciplinary artist who works mainly in photography and photo-based art. He is the founding director of PhotoMuse - The Museum of Photography in Kerala, southern India. .He was born in Chettichal, a remote village in Kerala, southern India. He did his primary education in Chembuchira Government LP School and secondary education in Sree Krishna High School in Moonnumuri, Mattathur Village. He graduated in modern medicine from Government Medical College, Thrissur, Kerala. It was during his graduation period that he began serious practice in the visual arts, later shifting his area of art practice from painting to photography in 1995. Dr.Pulikkal has exhibited nationally and internationally, and curated many exhibitions of contemporary photography in India   and abroad

Photography: Introduced to photography in 1998. Early interests were Classical Pictorialism, social documentaries, documentaries on Nature, especially the butterflies of the Western Ghats of India and fine landscapes. Currently, he is engaged more with contemporary landscapes, conceptual photography and photo-based art practices. His early practice of nature photography was considerably influenced by his mentor T.N.A._Perumal. He was trained in the art and craft of black and white photography by the American people photographer and platinum print-maker Herbert Ascherman Jr. He trained Dr.Pulikkal in the resurgent art of historic Platinum Printing and the use of 8x10 view camera.

Major Exhibitions: He has thus far exhibited in more than two dozen venues in India (1999 - 2013). The exhibition in Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Ohio, USA, in 2007, was his first international show. Later he had two solo and two group exhibitions in Berlin - 2011, 2012 & 2013. A retrospective collection of his work was shown in The Industry and Film Museum, Wolfen, Germany, from August to September 2013. ‘West Meets East’ – was a two-person show of platinum-palladium prints in collaboration with Mr.Herbert Ascherman Jr.in the Loftworks Gallery, Cleveland, USA, as a collateral program during the Cleveland International Triennial of Contemporary Art – 2018 (August 3 – September 1, 2018)