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For Sohrab Hura, Photography Is a Way of Feeling Visible | Aperture

For Sohrab Hura, Photography Is a Way of Feeling Visible

In his first-ever US museum survey, the Indian artist experiments with the possibilities of documentary images—and expands into painting and video.

via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/for-sohrab-hura-photography-is-a-way-of-feeling-visible/

For a period of about three years during his mid-twenties, Sohrab Hura strived to be what he called an anti-photographer. Doubt had begun seeping into his work. In particular, he felt conflicted about the ways in which documentary photography generates images from other people’s

https://aperture.org/editorial/for-sohrab-hura-photography-is-a-way-of-feeling-visible/

November 13, 2024
11 Photographers on Seeking the Unexpected in Their Work

11 Photographers on Seeking the Unexpected in Their Work

Sabiha Çimen, Susan Meiselas, Alex Webb, and more on how happy accidents and unusual turns led to their most memorable images.

via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/11-photographers-on-seeking-the-unexpected-in-their-work/

Sabiha Çimen, Susan Meiselas, Alex Webb, and more on how happy accidents and unusual turns led to their most memorable images.

March 22, 2021
11 Photographers Reflect on Images of Solidarity – Aperture Foundation NY

12 Photographers Reflect on Images of Solidarity

Bruce Davidson, Miranda Barnes, Sohrab Hura and more on how photographs can represent solidarity—from demonstrations of unity in the face of adversity and oppression, to moments of community and connection.

via Aperture Foundation NY: https://aperture.org/blog/12-photographers-reflect-on-images-of-solidarity/

How can photographs represent solidarity? From Bruce Davidson’s iconic images of the Civil Right Movement to Richie Shazam’s coverage of the massive Black Trans Lives Matter march in Brooklyn last month, the act of solidarity can be seen in these demonstrations of unity in the face of adversity and oppression. But solidarity is also captured in moments of community and connection, as seen in the work of Chien-Chi Chang and Denise Stephanie.

July 27, 2020
The Documentary Photography Issue VII: Home, reimagined

The Documentary Photography Issue VII: Home, reimagined

It feels as if our relationship with the idea of home is changing. Across the world, nationalism finds itself dancing freely with far-right politics, while political divisions have chopped families right down the middle, transforming previously tight-kni

via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/the-documentary-photography-issue-vii-home-reimagined/

‘Home’ is both a physical and imagined space – a state and place of belonging. In our annual celebration of visual storytelling, join us as we spotlight the photographers capturing it in all of its wildly different guises.

January 13, 2020
Juxtapoz Magazine – The Levee: A Photographer in the American South

Juxtapoz Magazine – The Levee: A Photographer in the American South

The Levee: A Photographer in the American South presents a body of photographs by Sohrab Hura in which the artist explores themes of connection, persp…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/the-levee-a-photographer-in-the-american-south/

The Levee: A Photographer in the American South presents a body of photographs by Sohrab Hura in which the artist explores themes of connection, perspective, and place. The landscapes and portraits of The Levee trace Hura’s travel along the Mississippi River from its confluence with Ohio to the far reaches of the delta in Louisiana.

January 2, 2020
Magnum Gets an Injection of New Talent From Six Photographers | American Photo

Magnum Gets an Injection of New Talent From Six Photographers

This year the organization is considering a record number of new Magnum associates to potentially join their ranks: Matt Black, Carolyn Drake, Sohrab Hura, Lorenzo Meloni, Max Pinckers and Newsha Travakolian. To celebrate the history-making occasion Milk Gallery is currently hosting, Magnum Photos: New Blood, an exhibition that highlights the diverse points of view of each of these photographers.

April 26, 2016
Mother, Son, Schizophrenia – The New Yorker

Mother, Son, Schizophrenia

The Indian photographer Sohrab Hura’s photo journal “Life Is Elsewhere” shows his mother’s struggle with mental illness.

via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/mother-son-schizophrenia

“There is a lot of suffering in this house,” the Indian photographer Sohrab Hura writes in a note printed at the beginning of his photo journal “Life Is Elsewhere.” In 1999, when Hura was seventeen years old, his mother was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and in the following years the house they shared was overtaken by her illness. In the book, which Hura self-published last month, he describes her screaming obscenities, obsessively changing the locks on the door, beating him with a stick, and at times disbelieving that he was her son

April 8, 2015
Sohrab Hura joins Magnum: “Life is Elsewhere” | dvafoto

Sohrab Hura joins Magnum: “Life is Elsewhere”

Congratulations to Sohrab! We are looking forward to seeing more of your work gain a wider audience.

August 13, 2014
Magnum announces Sohrab Hura as its latest nominee » British Journal of Photography

Magnum elects Sohrab Hura as newest nominee

Magnum Photos has named Indian photographer Sohrab Hura as its latest nominee. The announcement was made following the agency’s annual general meeting, which took place in New York at the weekend. ‘Olivia Arthur and Susan Meiselas encouraged me to apply,’

via British Journal of Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/2014/07/magnum-announces-sohrab-hura-as-its-latest-nominee/

Magnum Photos names Indian photographer Sohrab Hura as a nominee following the agency’s 67th AGM

July 2, 2014
sohrab hura – oasis | burn magazine

Sohrab Hura – oasis | burn magazine:

As darkness fell, it brought with it a sense of loneliness. I had been to Siem Reap in Cambodia some years ago when it had felt different. The roads were dustier, the people more… well, visible, and the town was a sleepier one.

June 21, 2009