Sohrab Hura

Sohrab Hura (born 17 October 1981) is an Indian photographer based in New Delhi. 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.
Life and work.
Hura was born in Chinsurah, West Bengal, India. He attended The Doon School in Dehradun, Uttarakhand and has a masters in economics from the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. He began making photographs during college with a Nikon FM10 given to him by his father. He is now based in New Delhi, India.
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. The trilogy's "Life Is Elsewhere" was made between 2005 and 2011, and "Look It's Getting Sunny Outside!!!" was made between 2008 and 2014.
In 2011 the "British Journal of Photography" included Hura in its Ones to Watch. He became a nominee member of Magnum Photos in 2014 (the second Indian photographer to become a nominee member) an Associate member in 2018, and a full member in 2020. 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".