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An independent publishing house designing and producing artists books with a focus on photography & visual arts.

23/09/2025

On 21st September 2025, we launched A Discreet Exit Through Darkness and Things We Lost Last Night at Experimenter, Ballygunge Place, Kolkata, in conversation with the incredible Dayanita Singh.

An intimate journey through personal loss, political turmoil, and the quiet weight of remembering, A Discreet Exit Through Darkness | Things We Lost Last Night is Soumya’s response to the disappearance of his mother in 1969 and his grandfather’s quiet search for her that ended before they could ever meet.

Both books are now available to buy — please check the link in our bio.

A heartfelt thank you to , , and everyone who came, listened, and shared the evening with us.

13/09/2025

Posted • Friends in Kolkata, don’t miss Soumya Sankar Bose in conversation with photographer and curator Dayanita Singh as he launches his new book 𝘈 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘌𝘹𝘪𝘵 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘋𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 | 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘞𝘦 𝘓𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘓𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 on Sunday, 21 September 2025, at Experimenter – Ballygunge Place, Kolkata, from 5 – 6:30 pm.

An intimate journey through personal loss, political turmoil, and the quiet weight of remembering, 𝘈 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘌𝘹𝘪𝘵 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘋𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 | 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘞𝘦 𝘓𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘓𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 is Bose’s response to the disappearance of his mother in 1969 and his grandfather’s quiet search for her that ended before they could ever meet.

👉 To join the conversation, visit the official Instagram page of Experimenter Kolkata and click the link in bio.

📚 To order the book, please visit the link in the bio of Red Turtle Photobook....
Images:
2) Soumya Sankar Bose. Photo credit: Tim Bowditch
3) Dayanita Singh. Photo credit: Mads Alexander Selvig

[Soumya Sankar Bose, A Discreet Exit Through Darkness, Things We Lost Last Night, book launch, Dayanita Singh, conversation, Experimenter, Ballygunge Place, Kolkata]

08/06/2025

A Discreet Exit Through Darkness is now at the printing stage!

If you haven’t pre-ordered your copy yet, now is the time. Only a few copies are left at the special discounted price of ₹2700 (original price ₹3200)and 75 USD(including shipping, original price 80 USD), limited to the first 100 orders.

This photobook explores a deeply personal family mystery — the disappearance of the artist’s mother in 1969 and her return years later with no memory of what happened. Told through two narratives — his grandfather’s search and his mother’s fragmented recollections — the book combines diary entries, photographs, and imagined memories.

Winner of the Louis Roederer Discovery Public Award at Rencontres d'Arles 2023.

Designed by Barnali Bose.

Pre-order now via the link in bio.

19/04/2025

We're happy to announce that pre-orders are now open for the book A Discreet Exit Through Darkness. Please consider pre-ordering to support the book — link in bio.

A Discreet Exit Through Darkness traces a haunting family mystery: the disappearance of Soumya Sankar Bose’s mother in 1969, and her return, years later, with no memory of where she had been.

Told through two perspectives—his grandfather’s relentless search, and his mother’s fragmented recollections—this book weaves diary entries, photographs, and imagined memories into a quiet meditation on trauma, loss, and forgetting.

“A Discreet Exit Through Darkness” received the Louis Roederer Discovery Public Award at the Rencontres d'Arles in France, in 2023.

Original Price: ₹3200

Pre-order Price: ₹2700 (limited to first 100 copies)

Release: June 2025

Design: Barnali Bose

Edition: 500

14/07/2024

We're happy to announce our fourth book 'Downtown Kolkata and Other Happenings' by Artist Sumit Basu. Sumit Basu(.sba1 ) is a photographer and artist based in Kolkata, India.

We'll open for order Soon.

Sumit Basu's 'Downtown Kolkata and Other Happenings' is a journey through the socio-cultural, architectural as well as naturalistic landscape of Kolkata, accompanied with a trace of ambiguity. Basu's lens often captures the serendipity or the accidental chance that the city offers every now and then, making his photographs more connected to the mundane yet magical existence of the spaces around us. Combining history, memory and imagination, his images communicate a story through the chiaroscuro of paradoxical semblances, typical of the city's metropolitan identity. In addition, Basu attempts to go beyond the transfer of his own ideas and leaves a space for ruminations for his viewers as well as this book poses an eternal question, "After all this - now what?"

12/03/2023

We are open for pre-order... Ascension by & Design by

'After a time, deep in this place I found scenes I seemed to recognise, memories I seemed to own. It was a city and something more, a garden perhaps, or another realm. No matter how far I walked, the paths and the byways never seemed to end. What was I looking for? I knew only that I was looking.'

Ascension is Matthew Smith’s first Book. It received an Honourable Mention at the Lucie International Photo Awards 2020.

Featuring photographs taken in London, Venice and Tokyo, Ascension explores the hidden territory of the mind and the heart, through the outer world of a hybrid cityscape. Taken during a time of deep instability in Matthew’s life, which included the death of his first wife, the photographs reflect an inner journey that he needed to complete, through fear and grief, to find lasting courage and clarity of mind.

11/03/2023

We are open for pre-order... Please support our 3 rd Book Ascension by Design by

Ascension won honourable mentions at the Lucie International Photo Awards 2020, the Moscow International Foto Awards in 2020 and 2021 and the Tokyo International Foto Awards 2022. It will be exhibited at Galleria Bruno Lisi in Rome in 2023.
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This book is about an inward journey into deeper, darker places of the mind-palace unfurled.
Matthew Smith’s first photobook, Ascension, presents a constellation of moments, captured during daily wanderings in London during lockdown, mixed with those from earlier travels in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Venice. In the maze of reminiscence, all metropolitan cities merge into one quiet space in your hand.
August 2020. His wife passed. He walked and walked, through parks, graveyards, empty shops and streets. As daylight shifted, oblique memories started reshuffling. Collages formed.........
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