Shisir Basumatari is an artist who works with body painting and photography. He has exhibited his work at the Delhi Photo Festival in 2011 and was the art director of the short film Seven Hundred Zero Zero Seven, starring the Assamese writer Ranju Hazarika, which went on to win the Golden Conch for best documentary at the Mumbai International Film Festival in 2014.
He likes to cycle, and is currently restoring an old 1985 car. Interestingly, his father was a zoology lecturer and people often praised his beautiful handwriting. It is no coincidence then that he ended up working on a project involving terrible handwriting.