Downtown

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?”