Occupation Photographer Years active 2010-present | Website soumyasankarbose.com Name Soumya Bose | |
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Known for Documentary photography Notable work The Former Heroes of Jatra Awards Toto-Tasveer Emerging Photographer Award | ||
Soumya Sankar Bose is an Indian documentary photographer.
Life and work
Soumya Sankar Bose is an independent documentary photographer, born and brought up in Midnapore, India. His long term project on retired Jatra (Bengal) artistes has been funded by India Foundation for the Arts. His work has appeared in The Caravan, scroll.in, The Huffington Post, L'oeil de la photographie, Invisible Photographer Asia, BBC, The Indian Express, and The Telegraph.
Bose's work explores concepts of nostalgia, modernity, performativity and the transformation of art in a changing world, his work both creates and documents reality. His portraits of Jatra artists are staged spectacles that evoke not only the tragedy of this waning tradition, but also those of its practitioners. Using photography as a performative medium rather than documentary tool, Bose brings an original approach to an often photographically explored space of dying art forms in India.
