She graduated as a student of English Literature from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi and went on to pursue a Masters in Media and Cultural Studies from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai. Her work as a documentary filmmaker won her a National Award in 2015 for the documentary ‘Qissa-e Parsi’. Since 2015, she has shifted focus from moving to still images in visual storytelling, with a special interest in analog and alternate processes in photography. Last year Divya was awarded the Inlaks Shivdasani Scholarship to spend two semesters studying photography at the International Centre of Photography in New York.