Centralia exposes hidden crimes of war as an indigenous people fight for their survival. In war, truth is the first casualty and Poulomi Basu’s new bo…
Centralia exposes hidden crimes of war as an indigenous people fight for their survival. In war, truth is the first casualty and Poulomi Basu’s new book Centralia explores the unsteady relationship between reality and fiction and how our perceptions of reality and truth are manipulated.
In 2009, Poulomi Basu learned that India was recruiting women for its patrol of the border with Pakistan. Inspired, she followed this new paramilitary force through training and after, resulting in the project, “To Conquer Her Land.”
Photographer Poulomi Basu said she got the idea after reading a newspaper article in 2009: India for the first time was recruiting women to serve in its Border Security Patrol, training them to police the country’s long and dangerous boundary with its archenemy, Pakistan.
Poulomi Basu was the first-prize winner for PHmuseum’s 2018 Grant, awarded by an independent jury featuring Monica Allende (Independent Photo Editor and Cultural Producer), Roger Ballen (photographer and artist), Genevieve Fussell (Senior Photo Editor at The New Yorker), and Emilia van Lynden (Artistic Director, Unseen). It is being published as part of World Press Photo’s collaboration with the PHmuseum.
We asked Facebook, Instagram and Twitter followers to submit questions about gear for the second installment of 7 with VII. Read on for the 7 answers from VII’s Ron Haviv, Sim Chi Yin, Ashley Gilbertson, Arthur Bondar, Ed Kashi, Poulomi Basu and Sarker Protick
VII Photo announced today that five emerging photographers have been selected to join the photo agency’s mentor program. This year’s roster of photographers were chosen from 150 applicants. Over the next two years, VII photographers will mentor the five e
Poulomi Basu, based in New Delhi, who will be mentored by Stefano DeLuigi
Maika Elan, based in Hanoi, who will be mentored by John Stanmeyer
Ali Arkady, based in Khanaqin, Iraq, who will be mentored by Ed Kashi
Arthur Bondar, currently based in Moscow, who will be mentored by Donald Weber
Cristobal Olivares, based in Santiago, Chile, who will be mentored by Christopher Morris
