About Me

Puja Parakh (she/her) is an Indian-American photographer based in New York City. 

Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Puja relocated to Seattle in 2009 where she made a career leading design teams at tech companies. In 2011, Puja graduated from University of Washington with a Master’s in Human-Centered Design & Engineering. While attending school, she taught photography to students at Youth in Focus and was the Founding Photographer for Rain City Rock Camp for Girls. This led to over a decade of photographing weddings, public events, being in the pit for music festivals, and portraits in so many spaces adjacent to her day job. Puja's work has been featured in Wired, Seattle Times, Portland Mercury, KEXP, The Stranger, TimeOut, on album covers, in documentaries, and academic journals. 

In 2024, Puja was the recipient of the Director’s Fellowship from the International Center of Photography in New York and is now studying Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism full-time. Her current project, Archiving Belonging, is a visual archive of the queer South Asian diaspora.