Kalpesh Lathigra

Kalpesh Lathigra (born 1971) is a British photographer. He initially worked as a photojournalist and won a 1st prize award in the World Press Photo competition. Later he switched focus to personal artistic projects and produced Lost in the Wilderness and Memoire Temporelle (2022).

Life and work Lathigra was born and raised in east London. His family migrated from Junagadh, India to the UK via Kenya and Zanzibar over three generations, before he was born.

He earned a postgraduate diploma in photojournalism at the London College of Printing. He worked as a photojournalist for newspapers from 1994 to 2000, then on long term projects and magazine and commercial assignments. Around this time he moved away from photojournalism.

Publications Lost in the Wilderness. London: self-published, 2015. . With an essay by Garvard Goodplume Jr.

Awards 2000: 1st prize, Arts and Entertainment category, World Press Photo, Amsterdam

Group exhibitions Facing Britain: British Documentary Photography since the 1960s, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Germany, 2021/22