Chandan Gomes studied philosophy. Themes of beauty, imitation, and abandonment interest him. He is the recipient of the 2011 India Habitat Centre Fellowship for Photography. In 2013 he was awarded the Oslo University College Scholarship to present his work at Chobi Mela VII (Dhaka, Bangladesh) and the Neel Dongre Award in Photography. He was awarded the Foto Visura Spotlight Grant (2014) for the making of an artist book, This World of Dew. Gomes’ first solo exhibition at PHOTOINK was a presentation of two projects, photographs from his project Promise of Beauty and prints from the book, This World of Dew. Chandan Gomes teaches at the Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts & Communications, Delhi.