Deep Dive | Sohrab Hura

Sohrab Hura (b. 1981) is a photographer and film maker. Recent exhibitions 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 was awarded the 2020 Principal Prize of the International Jury at the 66th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen Online for Bittersweet; The Paris Photo-Aperture Photobook of the Year Award for The Coast, 2019; Nomination to the Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook of the Year Award Look It's Getting Sunny Outside!!!, 2018. Special Mention by the International Jury at the Oberhausen International Film Festival for The Lost Head & The Bird; Award for the Best Contribution, NRW category at the Oberhausen International Film Festival for The Lost Head & The Bird in 2020. His work may be found in the permanent collection of MoMA NY, Ishara Art Foudation, Dubai, Cincinnati Art Museum amongst other collections both private and public. Hura lives and works in New Delhi.

NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati lives in Kathmandu, Nepal and works at the intersections of visual storytelling, research, pedagogy, and collective action. In 2007, she co-founded photo.circle; an independent artist-led platform that facilitates learning, exhibition making, publishing and a variety of other trans-disciplinary collaborative projects for Nepali visual practitioners. In 2011, she co-founded Nepal Picture Library; a digital archiving initiative that works towards diversifying Nepali socio-cultural and political history. NayanTara is also the co-founder and Festival Director of Photo Kathmandu, an international festival that takes place in Kathmandu every two years. NayanTara has served as the Festival Director for South Asia’s premier non-fiction film festival Film Southasia from 2013-2015. She has been a mentor for the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass, was awarded the 2020 Jane Lombard Fellowship by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School and will be chairing the 2021 World Press Photo Contest Jury.