Barkat is a photographer born in the UK to Indian parents, working across places, histories, and quiet thresholds of belonging. Holding a BA in Economics and a BFA from Tufts University, her practice emerged as a way to navigate memory, distance, and belonging through image-making. Her ongoing project, Underwood, traces the shifting idea of home—how it fractures, endures, and rebuilds itself under the weight of familial ties. Informed by a layered cultural inheritance, Barkat’s work lingers in the quiet complexities of people and the unseen forms of emotional suffering. Each portrait becomes both a conversation and an excavation, where personal histories and visual language converge—revealing what remains, tender and unspoken, in the pause between.
2026 Girls in Film x Tate Collective — Tate Britain
2025 Gathering Place: Family Sights — Griffin Museum of Photography (Virtual)
2025 Into Your Eyes: Photographic Portraiture in the Digital — Los Angeles Center of Photography (Virtual)
2024 PRC Student Show — VanDernoot Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2023–2024 Exhibitions at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA at Tufts), Boston, MA
2019 IB Student Exhibition — OXO Tower, London
AWARDS
2026 Fresh Eyes 2026
2026 Shortlisted — Getxophoto Open Call: Reset
2025 Shortlisted — PhMuseum Women Photographers Grant