Dimpy Bhalotia

Dimpy Bhalotia (born 1987) is an Indian street photographer based in London and Mumbai. In 2020, she was one of the winners of the British Journal of Photography s Female in Focus Award, and won the Grand Prize Award in the iPhone Photography Awards.

Life and work Bhalotia was born and grew up in Mumbai, India. After school, she moved to London and gained a BA in Fashion Design Technology: Womenswear from the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London.

Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Telegraph , L'Officiel and Mare . The paperback edition of the novel Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line (2021) by Deepa Anappara used photographs by Bhalotia in its cover design.

Awards 2019: 2nd Place, Italian Street Photo Festival 2019: 1st Place, The Independent Photographer 2019: 2nd place, series, iPhone Photography Awards 2019: Grand Winner, Photobox Instagram Photography Awards (PIPA) 2019: 1st Place, StreetFoto San Francisco 2020: Grand Winner, Paris International Street Photo Awards 2020: 1st Place, Gold star Award, ND Awards 2020: 1st Place, Fotografia Alicante Monovisions Award 2020: 2nd Place, Oneshot: Movement, International Photography Awards (IPA) 2020: 2nd Place, People, International Photography Awards (IPA) 2020: Grand Prize Winner, Photographer of the Year category, iPhone Photography Awards (IPPAWARDS) for her photograph "Flying Boys" photographed in Banaras, India 2020: Gold in Advertising, Budapest Foto Awards 2020: Gold in Special/Smartphone Photography; second place in Special, The Prix de la Photographie 2020: VI Concurso Internacional de Fotografía Alicante 2020: 1 of 20 Single Image category winners, Female in Focus Award, British Journal of Photography 2021: 1st Place, The Spider Awards 2022: 3rd place, Lifestyle category, iPhone Photography Awards (IPPAWARDS)

Publications with contributions by Bhalotia ICPConcerned: Global Images for Global Crisis. Glitterati. By David Campany. . Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the International Center of Photography in New York, 2020. Bhalotia contributed a photograph.

Solo exhibitions

2026 – Small Lens, Big World, Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa, Florida, United States.

Group exhibitions and during festivals Brussels Street Photography Festival, Brussels, Belgium, 2019 PhoS Sofia Street Photography Days, Bulgaria, 2019 El Barrio Art Space PS109, New York, USA, 2019 Treviso Photographic Festival, Treviso, Italy, 2020 The State Historical Museum of the Southern Urals, Chelyabinsk, Russia, 2020 CLB Berlin Gallery for The Independent Photographer Posters on the Streets, New York 6 locations, USA, 2020 Fédération Internationale de l'Art Photographique, Turkey, 2020 International Centre of Photography, USA, 2020 Paris Espace Beaurepaire, Paris, France, 2021