Sanjeet Chowdhury, a graduate of St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata in the late 1980s, is a Kolkata-based independent photographer, filmmaker, and curator committed to representing the everyday. He works with various media and formats, while 35mm manual cameras, black and white celluloid films, and wide-angle lenses remain his favorite in visualizing people and spaces. His thematic interests have a broad spectrum ranging from photography, cinema, and art history to culinary culture, religion, and popular culture that he explores through his photographic, cinematic, and curatorial practices. Sanjeet’s works have been widely exhibited in galleries, art, and film festivals as well as extensively published in books and magazines. Previously his photographs were showcased in exhibitions in London, New York, and Basel, while his video arts and films were screened at various international festivals at the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, Transmediale in Berlin, Tel Aviv, Stockholm, Shanghai, and numerous film festivals across India. More recently he curated group photography shows as well as books. Currently, he is working on two book-length projects: the first project, “Little Europe,” is a collection of his photographs from contemporary towns that were European colonies along the river Hoogly, while the second project is an anthology on the culinary history of Bengal. Besides being a practicing photo artist, Sanjeet is a collector of albumen and silver gelatin prints, glass negatives, and Daguerreotype plates. He owns a film production house, while also being one of the leading collectors of 19th and 20th century lithographs and oleographs from India. Sanjeet works out of Kolkata and Mumbai.