Amartya De b: 1988 is a photographer and artist from Kolkata in India who is interested in the disjunction between photography as a decisive moment in the documentary tradition and its descriptive qualities in relation to painting or sculpture. Using analog image capture techniques and digital postproduction and printing techniques. He explores the semiotic significances of the medium, the discipline of making images, formal qualities of space, light color, shadow, and play. Photography’s observable qualities in relation to people and our landscape while channeling a mood or a certain attention to the passage of time.  

Amartya holds an MFA from the Yale school of Art where he received the John Ferguson Weir award for imagination and creativity, he is an alumnus of the ICP one year certificate program in Creative Practices. His work has been exhibited at the David Zwirner Gallery in New York and the Academy of Fine Arts in Kolkata among other venues. 

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