Bio
Tira Khan loves travelling to unfamiliar places, although she more often finds herself close to home, photographing her family and artifacts in her house. She honors the seemingly mundane world around her by documenting it, and by doing so, her images become a tribute to domestic life. Although her quest for transcontinental excitement creates a striking contrast to her suburban reality, she sometimes wonders if the two are more similar than first appear.
Tira’s portfolio, Growing Up Girl, was exhibited in a solo show at Tufts Health Plan’s Harris A. Berman Diversity Gallery. She has an upcoming solo show at the Massachusetts State House, Joint Committee on Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities. Her photographs have been selected for exhibition in recent group shows, including the 2013 New England Photography Biennial at the Danforth Museum; City Streets/Country Roads, in the Photoplace Online Gallery; We Are Family, at the Darkroom Gallery, and The Ties That Bind in the Canon Gallery at Calumet. She received a Bronze Telly Award for Charitable/Nonprofit Video for her work as a video producer, and is a contributor to Getty Images. Her photographs are in corporate newsletters, political websites and private collections.
In 2009, Tira founded Sugarhouse Media, which produces corporate and documentary-style videos for websites and presentations. She first began her career as a newspaper reporter and later earned a master’s degree in creative writing. She has studied film and photography at Massachusetts College of Art, the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, the New England School of Photography, and the Griffin Museum’s Photography Atelier. She holds a B.A. from Lafayette College and an A.L.M. from Harvard University Extension School.
