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12/03/2023

We are open for pre-order... Ascension by & Design by

'After a time, deep in this place I found scenes I seemed to recognise, memories I seemed to own. It was a city and something more, a garden perhaps, or another realm. No matter how far I walked, the paths and the byways never seemed to end. What was I looking for? I knew only that I was looking.'

Ascension is Matthew Smith’s first Book. It received an Honourable Mention at the Lucie International Photo Awards 2020.

Featuring photographs taken in London, Venice and Tokyo, Ascension explores the hidden territory of the mind and the heart, through the outer world of a hybrid cityscape. Taken during a time of deep instability in Matthew’s life, which included the death of his first wife, the photographs reflect an inner journey that he needed to complete, through fear and grief, to find lasting courage and clarity of mind.

11/03/2023

We are open for pre-order... Please support our 3 rd Book Ascension by Design by

Ascension won honourable mentions at the Lucie International Photo Awards 2020, the Moscow International Foto Awards in 2020 and 2021 and the Tokyo International Foto Awards 2022. It will be exhibited at Galleria Bruno Lisi in Rome in 2023.
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This book is about an inward journey into deeper, darker places of the mind-palace unfurled.
Matthew Smith’s first photobook, Ascension, presents a constellation of moments, captured during daily wanderings in London during lockdown, mixed with those from earlier travels in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Venice. In the maze of reminiscence, all metropolitan cities merge into one quiet space in your hand.
August 2020. His wife passed. He walked and walked, through parks, graveyards, empty shops and streets. As daylight shifted, oblique memories started reshuffling. Collages formed.........
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24/10/2021

'Let's Sing an old song' by Soumya Sankar Bose

To order : http://redturtlephotobook.com/lets-sing-an-old-song/

Pages : 120 pages
ISBN : 978-1-5136-8884-8
Design : Barnali Bose
Flip Book : Suchana Saha
Text : Kushanava Choudhury
Details : Hard Bound with Box, with several tactile elements 28.5 x 10.8 cm.
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24/09/2021

"Sima Bose was a famous and one of the leading Jatra artist inbetween 1960s and 1970s. For the past 10 years she has suffered from arthritis and has trouble leaving her bed. Kolkata, India."

We are open to take orders of 'Lets sing an old song' first 100 copies will be numbered and signed(first 50 sold out). Please order or write for the last 50 numbered copies.

To order : https://redturtlephotobook.com or write at [email protected]

Price (Including Shipping) : 1600 INR(India) or 50 USD(World wide)

'Let's sing an old song' is on artistes who are now unemployed but were once gigantic figures of the Jatra, a folk theatre form in India. This work is based mainly on the Jatra artists, characters played by them and the psychology that drives them to be a part of this folk cult form.

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This Book is made possible through a grant from MurthyNAYAK Foundation

This project is made possible through a grant from India Foundation for the Arts.



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17/09/2021

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We are open to take orders now and first 100 special editions/copies will be numbered and signed.

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Price (Including Shipping) : 1600 INR(India) or 50 USD(World wide)

11/09/2021

- Photographer Soumya Sankar Bose remembers how Jatra, a style of folk theater, was popular during his childhood in West Bengal. But 10 years after moving out, Bose returned home to find that Jatra was no longer celebrated nearly as much. The genre's brightest stars, once major celebrities, were fading from view. Even his own uncle, a famous Jatra performer, had to take a job at a train station to make ends meet.

Jatra originated in Bangladesh and the eastern Indian states of Odisha and Bihar. It's a living and vibrant form of theater, usually performed on open-air stages, inspired by Hindu mythology, popular legends and contemporary events.

Link :https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2019/05/19/711468164/a-photographers-search-for-the-vanishing-stars-of-bengali-folk-theater

Pre- order the Book 'Let's sing an old song'. First 100 copies ordered on redturtlephotobook.com will be signed and numbered (First 50 Sold out)

11/09/2021

Pre- order 'Let's sing an old song'. First 100 copies ordered on redturtlephotobook.com will be signed and numbered (First 50 Sold out)

Anukul Ghosh (left), 63, and Rabin Kumar Majhi, 51, pose as a newly married couple. Ghosh used to play female characters in the 1970s and 1980s. He has now retired from Jatra.

Let's sing an old song' is on artistes who are now unemployed but were once gigantic figures of the Jatra, a folk theatre form in India. This work is based mainly on the Jatra artists, characters played by them and the psychology that drives them to be a part of this folk cult form.

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08/09/2021

We are open to take orders now and first 100 special editions/copies will be numbered and signed.

'Let's sing an old song' by

To order : https://redturtlephotobook.com or write at [email protected]

Price (Including Shipping) : 1600 INR(India) or 50 USD(World wide)
'Let's sing an old song' is on artistes who are now unemployed but were once gigantic figures of the Jatra, a folk theatre form in India. This work is based mainly on the Jatra artists, characters played by them and the psychology that drives them to be a part of this folk cult form.

04/09/2021

We are open to take orders for 'Let's sing an old song'.
First 100 special editions/copies will be numbered and signed. 30 out of 100 is already sold.
To order please go through this link : https://redturtlephotobook.com or write at [email protected]
Price (Including Shipping) : 1600 INR(India) or 50 USD(World wide)
'Let's sing an old song' is on artistes who are now unemployed but were once gigantic figures of the Jatra, a folk theatre form in India. This work is based mainly on the Jatra artists, characters played by them and the psychology that drives them to be a part of this folk cult form.
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This Book is made possible through a grant from MurthyNAYAK Foundation
This project is made possible through a grant from India Foundation for the Arts.

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03/09/2021

We're happy to share that my second self-published book 'Let's sing an old song' is now ready for print.

We are open to take orders now and first 100 copies will be numbered and signed.

To order : https://redturtlephotobook.com or write at [email protected]

Price (Including Shipping) : 1600 INR(India) or 50 USD(World wide)

'Let's sing an old song' is on artistes who are now unemployed but were once gigantic figures of the Jatra, a folk theatre form in India. This work is based mainly on the Jatra artists, characters played by them and the psychology that drives them to be a part of this folk cult form.

theatre

This Book is made possible through a grant from MurthyNAYAK Foundation

This project is made possible through a grant from India Foundation for the Arts.



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17/08/2021

For order/more details please visit the below link: https://redturtlephotobook.com

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'Let's Sing an Old song' by Soumya Sankar Bose is a book on artistes who are now unemployed but were once gigantic figures of the Jatra, a folk theatre form in India. This work is based mainly on the Jatra artists, characters played by them and the psychology that drives them to be a part of this folk cult form.

17/08/2021

For order/more details please visit the below link: https://redturtlephotobook.com

'Let's Sing an Old song' by Soumya Sankar Bose is a book on artistes who are now unemployed but were once gigantic figures of the Jatra, a folk theatre form in India. This work is based mainly on the Jatra artists, characters played by them and the psychology that drives them to be a part of this folk cult form.

13/08/2021

09/08/2021

New Book : Let's Sing an Old Song by Soumya Sankar Bose
To pre-order : https://redturtlephotobook.com
Price (Including Shipping) : 1600 INR(India) or 50 USD(World wide)

Release Date : 10th September,2021
Pages : 120 pages
ISBN : 978-1-5136-8884-8
Design : Barnali Bose
Flip Book : Suchana Saha
Text : Kushanava Choudhury
Details : Hard Bound with Box, with several tactile elements 28.5 x 10.8 cm.

Soumya Sankar Bose began photographing artistes who are now unemployed but were once gigantic figures of the Jatra, a folk theatre form in India. This work is based mainly on the Jatra artists, characters played by them and the psychology that drives them to be a part of this folk cult form.
Dating back to the 16th century, the Jatra is a famous folk theatre form of united Bengal(Bangladesh and West Bengal), employing dialogue, monologue, songs and instrumental music to tell stories .Jatra pala ,as the plays are called ,are enacted on wooden stages without any barriers between the actors and the audience, facilitating direct communication. The plots vary from India mythology and historical incidents to something more contemporary and based on social issues. The partition of India had a major impact on Jatra as artistes in the newly formed East-Pakistan (later Bangladesh), a Muslim majority country, discontinued to enact Hindu religious folktales such as Krishna lila ,Devi thakurani,kongso bodh,kaliadaman etc. On the other side of the border, artistes in west bengal stopped playing Muslim characters such as Siraj-ud-dullah,Shah jahan, Akbar etc. The advent of cinema and TV in the 60s and 70s blew a deadly blow to the theatre art form. In 2013 , over 600 Jatra companies employed over 2,00,000 people but their situation has come to force them to often offer free performances.

02/06/2021

Our Book 'Where the Birds never sing' has found some permanent addresses now at







Thank you so much everyone for your enormous support and congratulations to everyone who was part of this Book from the very beginning.

We still have few copies left from our first edition, to order link in Bio ..

18/04/2021

Soumya Sankar Bose, Where The Birds Never Sing at Experimenter – Ballygunge Place. Opens April 21 – June 30.

Soumya Sankar Bose’s Where the Birds Never Sing is a body of work about the Marichjhapi massacre, the forcible eviction in 1979 of Bengali refugees on Marichjhapi Island in Sundarbans, West Bengal, and the subsequent death of thousands by police gunfire, starvation, and disease.
Bose, over the last few years, has been researching and re-enacting memories of the survivors in specific locations, as there is almost no written record of the incident. Through the intricate weaving of fact and fiction of existing oral histories of the real survivors, he brings to light several perspectives of the same narrative, forming a cryptic framework of this problematic history that is facing a slow erasure from memory.

This Project was supported by Magnum Foundation, Henry Luce Foundation, India
Foundation for the Arts under the Arts Practice Programme and The Foundation
for Indian Contemporary Art (under the aegis of Amol Vadehra Art Grant).

Online Viewing Room: https://experimenter.viewingrooms.com/viewing-room/9-soumya-sankar-bose-where-the-birds-never/

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to [email protected] or call on +91.33.4602.6457 / +91.33.4001.2289

01/12/2020

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[CONVERSATION SERIES - NEXT SATURDAY]
Join , photography curator at the Museum of Modern Art, in conversation with artists , , and , whose books are nominated for the Paris Photo - Aperture Foundation Photobook Awards 2020.
These four photobooks are as different as the artists who made them. Each grapples with urgent contemporary issues—from the suppression of inconvenient truths to the blind spots of Western feminism, from migration and citizenship to incarceration and representation—wrestling them into photobooks that honor the complexity and gravity of their subjects without neglecting the distinctive tactile and visual pleasures of the form.

25/11/2020

SATURDAY DECEMBER 5—5PM

Sarah Meister, photography curator at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA, New York), in conversation with artists Gloria Oyarzabel, Soumya Sankar Bose, Edgar Martins and June Canedo, whose books are nominated for the Paris Photo Book Awards.

Soumya Sankar Bose’s book Where the Birds Never Sing is a riveting story told in fits and starts, gathering together a series of images, documents, and textual commentary to address the 1979 massacre of Bengali refugees on Marichjhapi Island in Sundarban, West Bengal. Soumya Sankar Bose has worked with survivors of this traumatic event to recall and, at times, reenact memories of their survival for his camera

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19/11/2020

"Bose’s photographs are full of symbolism, alternately cryptic and evocative. Each spread in the book is dedicated to one person, either missing or dead, their name and age in 1979 run at the edge of a page. Each image references a memory or a trauma."- Olga Yatskevich

Thank you so much Olga Yatskevich for this beautifully written review on our book 'Where The Birds never Sing' by Soumya Sankar Bose .
https://collectordaily.com/soumya-sankar-bose-where-the-birds-never-sing/

Soumya Sankar Bose, Where the Birds Never Sing By Olga Yatskevich / In Photobooks / November 13, 2020 JTF (just the facts): Published in 2020 by Red Turtle Photobook (self-published) (here). Hardcover in a slipcase (21×29 cm), 144 pages, with 68 color and black and white photographs. Includes texts...

14/11/2020

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Souma Sankar Bose‘s - ‚Where The Birds Never Sing‘ is a work on the Marichjapi massacre, the forcible eviction of Bengali refugees in 1979. Mixing photography, archival material and interviews to a deep touching photobook. In stock now from Kolkata!

12/11/2020

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The book is a medium where the photographer should be able to reproduce the emotion in their work appropriately. However, the book is also a medium that propels the work of the photographer by adding a new dimension - tangibility. More often than not, certain limitations, as well as unique abilities of the print process, create desirable difference to the art work that the photographer may have been initially unaware of. This is where the print itself, becomes the artwork, superseding the original idea as a mere input.
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05/11/2020

Where the Birds Never Sing is a riveting story told in fits and starts, gathering together a series of images, documents, and textual commentary to address the 1979 massacre of Bengali refugees on Marichjhapi Island in Sundarban, West Bengal. Soumya Sankar Bose has worked with survivors of this traumatic event to recall and, at times, reenact memories of their survival for his camera. Their stories and the resulting images are buttressed by a number of small-scale facsimiles of various governmental reports tipped into the pages of the book—rare fragments of documentation that have survived an effort to destroy official evidence of the incident, one of the many violent repercussions that continue to follow, decades later, in the wake of Indian independence and partition. The results, per Martin, form a “strong example of book making in the subjective documentary mode.”

Red Turtle Photobook (self-published)
Kolkata, India, 2020
Designed by Barnali Bose

27/10/2020

22/10/2020

'Where the Birds Never Sing' is now available in USA, through .

18/10/2020

Soumya Sankar Bose’s Where the Birds Never Sing is a body of work on the Marichjhapi massacre. It traces the forcible eviction in 1979 of lower caste Bengali refugees on Marichjhapi Island in Sundarban, West Bengal, India, and the subsequent death of thousands by police gunfire, starvation, and disease.

Over the last three years, Bose has been researching and re-enacting some memories of the survivors in specific locations, as there is very little written record of the incident. Through the intricate weaving of existing oral histories, he brings to light several perspectives of the same narrative, forming a cryptic framework of this problematic history that is facing slow erasure from people’s memory.

Edie Peters says: “With historical documents, re-enactment photographs as subtle as portentous, and well-chosen quotes from oral history accounts, Soumya Sankar Bose tells the story of an almost forgotten massacre. He proves you can show an event without having been there, thus expanding the power of photography. Storytelling at its best: relevant subject, good photography, magnetic attention span, and perfect text-photos ratio.”

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Soumya Sankar Bose is an Indian documentary photographer. In his practice he uses photography, archival material, text and film to explore desire, identity and memory. He was one of World Press Photo’s 2019 Joop Swart Masterclass participants.

Find out more and order Where the Birds Never Sing by Soumya Sankar Bose, published by Red Turtle Photobook - €57,00

16/10/2020

'Where the Birds Never Sing' is now available in Europe, through (Amsterdam), (Paris) & .berlin (Berlin) .

11/10/2020

Where the Birds Never Sing
Online Viewing Room | Live now | Experimenter |

Soumya Sankar Bose’s Where the Birds Never Sing is a body of work about the Marichjhapi massacre, the forcible eviction in 1979 of Bengali refugees on Marichjhapi Island in Sundarban, West Bengal, and the subsequent death of thousands by police gunfire, starvation, and disease.
Bose, over the last three years, has been researching and re-enacting memories of the survivors in specific locations, as there is almost no written record of the incident. Through the intricate weaving of facts and fiction of existing oral histories of the real survivors, he brings to light several perspectives of the same narrative, forming a cryptic framework of this problematic history that is facing a slow erasure from memory.
For further information or press related questions please write to [email protected] or call on +91.33.4602.6457

Soumya Sankar Bose’s Where the Birds Never Sing is a body of work about the Marichjhapi massacre, the forcible eviction in 1979 of Bengali refugees on Marichjhapi Island in Sundarban, West Bengal, and the subsequent death of thousands by police gunfire, starvation, and disease. 

10/10/2020

’s ‘Where the Birds Never Sing’ has been shortlisted for the 2020 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards.📷📕💓👋🏼
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Soumya Sankar Bose’s ‘Where the Birds Never Sing’ is a body of work about the Marichjhapi massacre, the forcible eviction in 1979 of Bengali refugees on Marichjhapi Island in Sundarban, West Bengal, and the subsequent death of thousands by police gunfire, starvation, and disease. ⁣
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To order a copy go to or or ...
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- this year’s jury - Joshua Chang, .martin_ .onabanjo
—— Read more here: https://aperture.org/editorial/announcing-the-2020-photobook-awards-shortlist/⁣

 

07/10/2020

“I pulled out the torch from my bag to look for any insect or snake inside the boat. The wood was strong but rotten at the edges. There was logged water. Darkness deepened. Thunder! Lightning”!” writes Bose of one of his many experiences around Marichjhapi.

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'where the Birds Never Sing' is now available & .