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Param Tomanec

Artist and Filmmaker

Watermarked by the spirit of devotion, Param is focusing on producing works of visual art to go beyond the time they were produced. For sixteen years he lived as a monk in the Krishna tradition gaining him deep trust from his audiences. Param served a tenure at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies as Artist in Residence. His work appeared across books and journals, and art debut Rasa Yatra enjoyed worldwide critical acclaim. Param's first retrospective of photography was published in 2015 (Niyogi Books). Currently in works to complete his second art offering Krida Yatra, pairing life to the divine through beauty transcending mere appearances. He lives a nomadic life, seeking to build studio homesite in nature settings, where deeper cinematic visions of his yogic perception could be manifested in the light of the future.