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{{short description|Indian documentary photographer|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=January 2019}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Soumya Sankar Bose
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| birth_name =
|birth_date = 1990
|birth_place = [[Midnapore]], India
| other_names =
| known_for = Portrait, Documentary photography
| occupation = Photographer
|years_active=2010-present

| notable works = {{plainlist}}
*The Former Heroes of Jatra<ref>{{cite web | title=The Caravan 2015 | url=http://www.caravanmagazine.in/vantage/photo-essay-former-heroes-jatra}}</ref>
*Full Moon On a Dark night<ref>{{cite web | title=The New York Times | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/lens/these-dreamlike-portraits-explore-lgbtq-identity-in-india.html}}</ref>
| awards = {{plainlist}}
*Magnum Foundation's Migration and Religion Grant <ref>{{cite web | title=Magnum Foundation | url=https://www.magnumfoundation.org/projects/2019/7/24/soumya-sankar-bose-where-the-birds-never-sing}}</ref>
*India Foundation For the Arts Grant 2015 & 17<ref>{{cite web | title=India Foundation For the Arts Grant | url=http://www.indiaifa.org/grants-projects/soumya-sankar-bose.html}}</ref>
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| website = {{URL|http://www.soumyasankarbose.in}}
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'''Soumya Sankar Bose''' is an Indian documentary photographer. In his practice he uses photography, archival material and text to explore desire, identity and memory.<ref>{{cite web | title=Goa Photo Festival 2015 | url=http://www.goaphoto.in/photographers/soumya-sankar-bose/}}</ref> His first book 'Where the Birds Never Sing(2020)' is on [[Marichjhapi massacre]], the forcible eviction in 1979 of lower caste Bengali refugees on Marichjhapi Island in Sundarban, India, and the subsequent death of thousands by police gunfire, starvation, and disease.<ref>{{cite web | title=Where The Birds Never Sing | url=https://marichjhapimassacre.wordpress.com/}}</ref> The Book was shortlisted for the First Photobook award in the [[Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards]] 2020.

==Life and work==
Soumya Sankar Bose is an independent documentary photographer,<ref>{{cite web | title=Best Of Photography | url=http://www.best-of-photography.com/photographer.php?id=537&name=Soumya%20Sankar%20Bose}}</ref> born and brought up in Midnapore, West Bengal India. His long-term project on retired [[Jatra (Bengal)]]<ref>{{cite web | title=Medium/Vantage 2015 | url=https://medium.com/vantage/the-last-celebrities-of-jatra-a-dying-bengali-folk-opera-e249a5ca4ac7}}</ref> artistes had been funded by [[India Foundation for the Arts]]. His work has appeared in ''[[The New York Times]],''<ref>{{cite web | title=The New York Times 2018 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/lens/these-dreamlike-portraits-explore-lgbtq-identity-in-india.html}}</ref> ''[[The Caravan]],''<ref>{{cite web | title=The Caravan 2018 | url=http://www.caravanmagazine.in/photo-essay/psychological-exploration-lgbt-community-eastern-india}}</ref> ''[[The Huffington Post]],'' [[BBC]],<ref>{{cite web | title=BBC | url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36339522}}</ref> ''[[The Indian Express]],''<ref>{{cite web | title=The Indian Express | url=http://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art-and-culture/an-hour-upon-the-stage-2834617/}}</ref> ''[[The Telegraph (Calcutta)|The Telegraph]],''<ref>{{cite web | title=The Telegraph | url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/1160604/jsp/opinion/story_89174.jsp}}</ref> ''[[NPR]]''<ref>{{cite web | title=National Public Radio | url=https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2019/05/19/711468164/a-photographers-search-for-the-vanishing-stars-of-bengali-folk-theater}}</ref> and many more .

Bose's work "Let's Sing an Old Song" explores concepts of nostalgia, modernity, performativity and the transformation of art in a changing world, his work both creates and documents reality. His portraits of Jatra artists are staged spectacles that evoke not only the tragedy of this waning tradition, but also those of its practitioners. Using photography as a performative medium rather than documentary tool, Bose brings an original approach to an often photographically explored space of dying art form in India.<ref>{{cite web | title=Tasveer Journal 2015 | url=http://www.tasveerjournal.com/jatra/}}</ref>

Immersing the viewer in a surreal universe is crucial to Bose's project "Full moon on a Dark Night." By way of those portraits, Bose conducts a psychological exploration of a community of individuals who have been relentlessly persecuted by society because of their identities and their gender or sexual orientations. The work looks closely at the LGBT community in eastern India through a fantastical lens, often projecting a world devoid of restrictive laws and social taboos that the community regularly comes up against. Other images in the work are responses to these very constraints imposed by the state and society. It is here that Bose makes use of visual metaphors—a gas mask, a tiger in the wild, a choppy sea engulfing a man struggling against the current—to evoke notions of censorship and surveillance and feelings of suffocation and anxiety.<ref>{{cite web | title= The Caravan 2018 | url=http://www.caravanmagazine.in/photo-essay/psychological-exploration-lgbt-community-eastern-india/}}</ref>

==Publications==
*''Where the Birds Never Sing''<ref>{{cite web | title= Collector-daily review by Olga Yatskevich | url=https://collectordaily.com/soumya-sankar-bose-where-the-birds-never-sing/}}</ref> Kolkata: self-published (Red Turtle Photobook), 2020. {{ISBN|978-1-5136-6415-6}}. Edition of 600 copies.

==Awards & Fellowships==

* 2020- The Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art's Amol Vadehra Art Grant.
* 2020- The Agroecology Fund in collaboration with Magnum Foundation.
* 2019- Goethe-Insitut / Max Mueller Bhavan's Five Million Incidents.
* 2019- World Press Photo's Joop Swart Masterclass.
* 2019- India foundation for the Arts' Photo Book grant.
* 2018- Magnum Foundation & Henry Luce Foundation's Migration & Religion grant.<ref>{{cite news |title=Where the Birds never sing |url=https://www.magnumfoundation.org/projects/2019/7/24/soumya-sankar-bose-where-the-birds-never-sing/}}</ref>
* 2017- Magnum Foundation's Photography and Social Justice Fellowship.<ref>{{cite news |title=Legends of a lost art |url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/features/legends-of-a-lost-art-807686 |work=Tribuneindia News Service |language=en}}</ref>
* 2015 & 17- India foundation for the Arts grant under the Arts Practice Programme.
* 2015- The Toto Emerging Photographer of the Year.

== References ==
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==External links==
*{{Official website|www.soumyasankarbose.in}}
*[https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2019/05/19/711468164/a-photographers-search-for-the-vanishing-stars-of-bengali-folk-theater/ Interview NPR], June, 2019

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