Artist talk with Soham Gupta, Thomas Seelig, Head of Department of Photography, Museum Folkwang, Essen and Director Thomas Thiel in the context of the exhibition "After August Sander. People of the 21st Century" (28.01.-29.5.22).

Artist talk with Soham Gupta, Thomas Seelig (Museum Folkwang, Essen) and Director Thomas Thiel.

(English sequence starts around 4:30min)

As early as 10 years ago, Soham Gupta began photographing people he encountered in the darkness by Howrah Bridge in the Indian megacity, Calcutta. While these snapshots – glaring flash images set against dark backdrops – have a certain fleeting character and convey the impression of spontaneous shots, they are in fact the partly staged results of a development in the relationship between the photographer and the respective sitter. The talk took place in context of the exhibition “After August Sander. People of the 21st century” (28.1. - 29.5.22) at MGKSiegen.