Born in Dehra Dun in 1980, Kapil Das majored in English at the University of Delhi and has since worked as an ethnologist. In 2005 he co-founded the design consultancy Quicksand, based in Delhi and Bangalore, and in 2009 he founded the public arts initiative Blindboys, a forum to present photography through on- and offline platforms such as the improvised street exhibition “BlowUp Bombay” (2011). Das held his first solo exhibition “154 Neshvilla Road and Other Stories” at Photoink, New Delhi, in 2011.