Sohrab Hura (born 17 October 1981) is an Indian photographer based in New Delhi. [1] He is a full member of Magnum Photos.
Hura's 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. He has also self-published The Coast (2019) and The Levee (2020). His work has been shown in solo exhibitions in London and in Kolkata, India.
Hura was born in Chinsurah, West Bengal. [2] He attended The Doon School in Dehradun, Uttarakhand [2] and has a masters in economics from the Delhi School of Economics. [3] [4] He began making photographs during college with a Nikon FM10 given to him by his father. [2] He is now based in New Delhi, India. [1]
Hura's Sweet Life trilogy of books focuses on his relationship with his mother, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 1999, when he was 17 years old. [5] [6] The trilogy's Life Is Elsewhere was made between 2005 and 2011, [6] and Look It's Getting Sunny Outside!!! was made between 2008 and 2014. [2]
In 2011 the British Journal of Photography included Hura in its Ones to Watch. [7] He became a nominee member of Magnum Photos in 2014 (the second Indian photographer to become a nominee member) [6] an Associate member in 2018, [1] [8] and a full member in 2020. [9] 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". [10]
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