Soham Gupta

Soham Gupta’s work constantly moves between the realms of documentary photography, art, and the written word. He responds to themes of loneliness and isolation, abuse and pain, scarred pasts and uncertain futures, sexual tensions, and existential dilemmas. In 2018, Soham was selected by The British Journal of Photography as one of sixteen emerging photographers from more than 500 nominations made by a global panel of experts. That same year, his book, Angst, published by Akina Books, was shortlisted for the Les Prix du Livre: Photo and Text Book Award at Les Rencontres d'Arles and the Paris Photo - Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award. He was one of the invited artists participating at the 58th La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Ralph Rugoff, in 2019. In the same year, Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany, acquired a major number of prints from the series Angst, which in 2021 were in an active and multifaceted dialogue with the work of Robert Frank, Nan Goldin, and Irving Penn—Soham's spiritual predecessors. This year, Soham was part of a group exhibition, After August Sander, at MGK Siegen, Germany, along with Collier Schorr, Tobias Zielony, and other artists. From January 28, 2022, to June 2, 2022, he also had his first solo show in France with more than a hundred prints at the Maison Robert Doisneau. Soham lives and works in Calcutta.