Sohrab Hura

Sohrab Hura is a photographer and film maker. Recent exhibitions include: Mother (2024) at MoMA PS1, New York; Ghosts in My Sleep (2023) at Experimenter Colaba, Mumbai; Spill (2021) at Huis Marseille Museum of Photography, Amsterdam; Spill (2020), Experimenter, Kolkata, include Companion Pieces: New Photography, MoMA, NY (2020) organised by Lucy Gallun; Searching for Stars Amongst the Crescents, Experimenter, Kolkata (2019); Videonale, Kunstmuseum Bonn (2019); The Levee, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati (2019); Homelands: Art from Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan, curated by Devika Singh, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (2019); Eyes Wild Open: Life is Elsewhere, Le Botanique, Brussels (2018); The Levee - FotoFest Houston (2018); Sweet Life, Experimenter, Kolkata (2017); The 10th Shanghai Biennale curated by Raqs Media Collective (2016) amongst others. Hura’s work has been widely shown in international film festivals such as UNDERDOX Film Festival; Vancouver International Film Festival; Image Forum, Tokyo; Arkipel Film Festival, Jakarta; Moscow International Experimental Film Festival; Oberhausen International Short Film Festival; FotoFest International, Houston.

Hura has been recently awarded the Eye Art & Film Prize 2025. His film Bittersweet (2019) was awarded the Principal Prize of the International Jury at the 66th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2020. The Lost Head & The Bird (2017) had previously won the NRW Award at the 64th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2018. He has self-published five books under the imprint Ugly Dog. His book The Coast (2019) won The Aperture - Paris Photo PhotoBook of the Year Award 2019. His work is in the permanent collections of MoMA (New York), Ishara Art Foundation, KNMA, Cincinnati Art Museum among others. Hura lives and works in New Delhi, India.