Sarnath Banerjee (born 1972) is an Indian graphic novelist, artist, filmmaker and co-founder of the comics publishing house, Phantomville.
Sarnath's project, the Gallery of losers, was on display on billboards across the six Olympic Host Boroughs in East London.
According to him, he came across the idea in São Paulo, Brazil, where he met 1984 Olympics silver medalist Douglas Vierra who almost won the judo gold that year.
[1] The Frieze Foundation has said that the work "taps into a collective consciousness of sporting near misses - the people who almost made it - and aims to resonate with both local communities and visitors to the London games".
A theme that runs strongly in his work is the loss of architecture and history that comes with a developing country's reach for modernisation.