Red Turtle Photobook

“In instances where there is no pre existing archive, my aim is to create an alternative archive, not an exact replica, but something that serves as another form of representation.”
— Soumya Sankar Bose
Recently published on Lenscratch, this conversation with Soumya Sankar Bose reflects on handmade artist books.

"Where the Birds Never Sing” revisits the history of the Marichjhapi massacre (1979) through photographs, testimonies, landscapes, and reconstructed imagery.

"A Discreet Exit Through Darkness / Things We Lost Last Night” explores disappearance of Bose’s mother at the age of 9. The book examines inherited memory, and fragile recollection through layered relationships between image and text.

"Let’s Sing an Old Song” unfolds through memory, sound, and nostalgia, using the artist book form as an intimate space for storytelling and remembrance of the vanishing artist of Jatra.

All the books are currently available at:
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# # # # Where the Birds Never Sing : Only the last 50 copies remaining from the current edition.
If you've been meaning to experience this photobook, now might be a good time to reserve your copy.

Our book is available at the Kolkata Book Fair at Mandas, Stall No. 418. If you are planning to purchase a copy, please drop by and pick one up there.

We're happy to announce our fourth book 'Downtown Kolkata and Other Happenings' by Artist Sumit Basu. Sumit Basu(.sba1 ) is a photographer and artist based in Kolkata, India.

We'll open for order Soon.

Sumit Basu's 'Downtown Kolkata and Other Happenings' is a journey through the socio-cultural, architectural as well as naturalistic landscape of Kolkata, accompanied with a trace of ambiguity. Basu's lens often captures the serendipity or the accidental chance that the city offers every now and then, making his photographs more connected to the mundane yet magical existence of the spaces around us. Combining history, memory and imagination, his images communicate a story through the chiaroscuro of paradoxical semblances, typical of the city's metropolitan identity. In addition, Basu attempts to go beyond the transfer of his own ideas and leaves a space for ruminations for his viewers as well as this book poses an eternal question, "After all this - now what?"