SOHAM GUPTA's photostream

SKILLS



1. Documents numerous stories concerning social injustice and exploitation.

2. Worked as assistant photographer to leading photojournalists.

3. Got first-hand experience in organizing an exhibition: starting from selecting photographs for the exposé to printing and framing and arranging the frames in the gallery to designing posters and cards and publicity campaigns in economical ways.

4. Works extensively with/on disadvantaged children, laborers and the homeless mentally ill.

5. Designs photo-books.



GOALS



1. To witness more of man’s unending struggle for survival.

2. To document it.

3. To confront the viewer with more such tales of struggles; to provoke a reaction in them.



ON ASSIGNMENTS



Soham carries two Nikon bodies: a film SLR (fitted with a 50mm lens and usually loaded with Kodak Tri-X 400 film) and a digital SLR (fitted with an 18-200mm lens; one 18-70mm lens is kept as backup). His black-and-white films are processed by Mr. Bikash Bose, veteran darkroom technician in Calcutta. Hi-Resolution negative scans done from Mumbai.



SPECIALITIES



Photojournalism | Philanthropy | Documentary Photography | Analogue and Digital Photography | Portraits | Travel



WORK EXPERIENCE





Documentary Photographer

EARTH CARE

(Philanthropy industry)

January 2011 — Present

Associated as a freelance documentary photographer with this Calcutta based non-profit organization, headed by Mr. Ashis Das.



Independent Photographer

Freelance

(Photography industry)

April 2007 — Present

Working with the sole objective of witnessing and documenting injustice in today’s society and raise social awareness about issues overlooked by the people at large.



Assistant Photographer

Toscana Photographic Workshop, Italy

(Photography industry)

September 2010 — October 2010

Worked as an assistant photographer on a freelance basis to Mr. Ed Kashi and Mr. Carlo Roberti and a team of international students, during TPW’s Destination Workshop in India.



Freelance Photographer

Cannon Design

(Architecture & Planning industry)

July 2010 — September 2010

Assigned to produce a book of photographs, documenting the construction workers involved in the construction of the Tata Medical Center in New Town, Calcutta. The book, ‘MEN AT WORK’ received positive feedback from various individual including Mr. Ratan Tata, India’s leading industrialist.





RELEVANT EDUCATION



Selected on full scholarship to participate in the 2011 ‘Changing Ideas’ Workshop, held in India and led by award-winning photographer Jonathan Torgovnik and the picture editor of The Guardian Weekend Magazine, Kate Edwards.

The workshop was meant for emerging photojournalists interested in perusing humanitarian photography seriously.



EXHIBITIONS



1. FORMAT FESTIVAL in Derby, UK: 2011 (Group)

2. Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre in Calcutta, India: 2009 (Solo)



PUBLICATIONS


Smart Photography Magazine | Asian Photography Magazine | The Seagull Chronicle | Eco Echoes (Cover Photograph) | C/o Earth (Cover Photograph) | Moments (Cover Photograph) | Yale Journal of International Affairs (yalejournal.org) | Creature Companion Magazine | Free Photography Course | PeaceReporter, Italy | Photography News



PRIZES



1. Nominee at 5th Annual Spider Awards. Judged by dignitaries from Magnum, Sotheby’s, VII Agency, etc.

2. Winner of national-level contest, for giving a suitable name to the National Interactive Web Portal on Disabilities [Punarbhava]. New Delhi, 2008.

3. 2nd Prize, Konica Minolta Candid Photography Contest, organized by Smart Photography. March 2006.