Sohrab Hura (born 17 October 1981) is an Indian photographer based in New Delhi.[1] 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.
Hura was born in Chinsurah, West Bengal.[2] He attended The Doon School in Dehradun, Uttarakhand[2] and has a masters in economics from the Delhi School of Economics.[3][4] He began making photographs during college with a Nikon FM10 given to him by his father.[2] He is now based in New Delhi, India.[1]
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.[5][6] The trilogy's Life Is Elsewhere was made between 2005 and 2011,[6] and Look It's Getting Sunny Outside!!! was made between 2008 and 2014.[2]
In 2011 the British Journal of Photography included Hura in its Ones to Watch.[7] He became a nominee member of Magnum Photos in 2014 (the second Indian photographer to become a nominee member)[6] an Associate member in 2018,[1][8] and a full member in 2020.[9] 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".[10]