110 - Sohrab Hura
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Sohrab Hura is an Indian photographer based in New Delhi, India. He joined Magnum Photos as a nominee in 2014 and is currently an associate member. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions in London and in Kolkata, India.
Sohrab was born in West Bengal and attended India’s most highly regarded boys boarding school, The Doon School, in Dehradun, Uttarakhand. He has a masters degree in economics from the University of Delhi and began making photographs during college with a Nikon FM10 given to him by his father.
His self-published trilogy Sweet Life comprises the books Life is Elsewhere (2015), A Proposition for Departure (2017) and Look It's Getting Sunny Outside!!! (2018). The latter was shortlisted for Photobook of the Year in the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards. The trilogy focuses on Sohrab’s relationship with his mother, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 1999, when he was 17 years old.
In 2011 the British Journal of Photography included Sohrab in its Ones to Watch list. Sean O'Hagan, writing in The Guardian, included Hura's The Lost Head and the Bird exhibition in his "The top 10 photography exhibitions of 2017" describing it as “overwhelming, disorienting and utterly unforgettable.”
Sohrab’s fourth book, The Coast, was self-published in 2018 under his own Ugly Dog inprint and has been met with critical acclaim.
On episode 110, Sohrab discusses, among other things:
How misunderstanding the instructions for a grant led to something interesting
Feeling like he’s full of accidents and going with the flow
Seeking instablility
Photography as therapy in response to his mum’s illness - the Sweet Life trilogy
Boundaryless journeys, animals and birds
Staying in Magnum by the skin of his teeth
How he visualises his work as a tree
His latest book, The Coast
Piece on Magnum website
Discussion with Colin Pantall on Magnum Website
“For me, photography is just an excuse to insert myself into situations or spaces and to respond to those situations and spaces and to see what my relationship is with that.”
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