Jithindas K (born 1997) is a visual artist, graphic designer, photographer, videographer, educator, and filmmaker with multiple disciplines. He has a bachelor’s in mass communication and journalism from Calicut University, Kerala, and a diploma in cinematography from the Government Film and Television Institute, Bangalore. He has finished his master’s in design in photography design from the National Institute of Design, Gandhinagar.

Presently, Jithindas is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication Design, Saintgits Design School. His practice is in photography, film, video, graphic design, writing, and lecture performance. Both visually and narratively rooted, his work engages themes of trauma, recovery, emotional well-being, human connection, and political issues.

He briefly worked on documentary photography and videography with the guidance of concept photographer and documentary filmmaker Randeep Maddoke, working on a project about the 2020–2021 Indian farmers’ protest. He has also done a summer internship at Northeast Lightbox and was selected as a fellow co-curator for Future Flow, a project under the British Council’s India/UK Together Season, celebrating India’s 75th year of independence.

His work What Can’t a Mother Who is Limitless See! (2023) won the Quarter-Finalist award for Best Short Film at the Student World Impact Film Festival and was included two times in the long list for the photography award at Toto Funds Arts in 2022 and 2024 and one time included in the long list for best short film at Toto Funds Arts in 2023.

Jithindas calls upon his varied training and interests in media, employing his work as a means of working through and articulating personal and shared experiences. Outside of his work, his passions include writing, watching movies, designing, reading, and photographing—finding new ways to respond and mirror the world around him in images and narratives.