Samika Prupas is a designer and artist based in
Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, Canada, primarily working across publication design, photography, and documentary videos. She moves between the digital and the analog, drawn to anything that lets her tell a story, make images, or work with her hands. Her practice often wanders through time, memories, archives, and dreamscapes, with a particular fascination for the fleeting qualities in everyday life.
She is in search of freelance work for publication/ephemera design or photography!
sprupas@gmail.com
@samikaprupas
PHOTO OBJECT - July 2026
photo transfers on glass, 9.5 x 8.75 in
Doors are portals for the imagination to wander.
PHOTO SERIES -
May 2026
35 mm
Moments I captured from my return trip to China, May 2026. What a bizarre feeling, both foreign and familiar.
Shanghai, Nanping, Wuyishan, Huangshan, then back to Shanghai.
PHOTO SERIES - April 2026
4 x 5 in
This photo series came about as a way to process the uncanny feeling of something from the imaginary suddenly taking form. A dream turned into a photo series, then expanded into a book, providing an opportunity to return to the very woman I dreamt of. Time is a funny thing and sometimes it is completely incomprehensible.
PHOTO SERIES - April 2025
35 mm
What does it mean to grieve for someone you never really knew?
A lost letter to my orphenage caretaker.
PHOTO SERIES - November 2024
35 mm
And If I Can See the Sun explores mutable memories, the nuances within complex family dynamics, and how they change over time.
GALLERY -
Ongoing
35 mm and digital
From my personal collection of photos over the past three years.