Image- Kaustav SarkarSanjeet Chowdhury is a Kolkata-based independent photographer and curator committed to representing the everyday. He works with various media across analog and digital formats, while 35mm manual cameras, black and white celluloid films, and wide-angle lenses remain his favorite for visualizing people and spaces. His thematic interests have a broad spectrum ranging from photography, cinema, and connoisseurship to culinary cultures and popular practices of piety.
Sanjeet’s works has been widely exhibited in galleries, art and film festivals as well as extensively published in books and magazines. Previously his photographs were showcased in exhibitions in London, New York, and Basel, while his video arts and films were screened at various international festivals in Smithsonian Institute, Washington, Transmediale in Berlin, Tel Aviv, Stockholm, Shanghai, and numerous film festivals across India. More recently he curated group photography shows as well as books. Currently, he is working on a book-length project titled Little Europe that juxtaposes his photographs of former non-British European colonies along the river Hoogly with archival documents and ephemera.
Simultaneously, Sanjeet is a leading collector of 19th and 20th-century lithographs and oleographs from Bengal. Among other things, his collection features a wide range of albumen and silver gelatin prints, glass negatives, and Daguerreotype plates.
Sanjeet graduated from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata in the late 1980s and is currently based in Kolkata and Mumbai.