Debmalya Choudhuri

Debmalya Ray Choudhuri (b. Kolkata,1991) (him/them) is an artist from India, currently based in New York. His diverse practice, rooted in a diary, engages photography, performance, and text. Deb talks about confronting personal trauma and mental health situations while addressing contemporary societal questions on the “queerness” of identity, body, and space. Over time, his photographic practice has flowed from finding a sense of belonging in one place to connecting to people by establishing proximity to one person at a time. This way, the author tries to understand how people express desire and love and uses these experiences with strangers and friends to question the complex notion of being queer in today’s broader sociopolitical realm of existence. This approach adopted by the author aims to provoke the uncomfortable questions of identity & representation, the nature of the human condition, and the specifics of image reproduction and consumption, often latent in the cultural blind spots under late-stage capitalism. The lines between the subject and the photographer are fluid in the work. Currently, he continues to work on personal long-term collaborations on similar motifs. Deb continues to show work nationally and internationally, including Rotterdam Photo Festival, Les Rencontres des Arles, France, The LGBT Center, Enfoco NYC, Candela Book Gallery, Virginia, TILT Institute, Philadelphia, among others. They have published works in The Granta Magazine, The Elephant Magazine, The British Journal of Photography, Der-Greif, Humble Arts Foundation, ASAP Connect, and Alkazi Foundation India, among others. Their works are in several private collections worldwide, such as in Paris, New York, New Delhi, and Berlin.

Website: https://rayd.space