Magnum Poster: India, 2007 Sohrab Hura

Description

Sohrab Hura’s vivid, sometimes surreal photography explores the position in the world that he finds himself in. Though Hura initially worked through the prism of social documentary, he soon turned his strong vision inward, creating visual journals of his life and personal relationships as a means to “find [his] own logic”. In the summer of 1999, when he was only 17, Hura’s mother was diagnosed with acute paranoid schizophrenia. A deeply personal project, “Life is Elsewhere” focuses on Hura’s relationship with his mother and how it continues to evolve. Of the series, Hura says: “[It] is a journal of my life, my family, my love, my friends, my travels, my sheer need to experience all that is about to disappear.”