Sanjeet Chowdhury, a graduate from the 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 format, 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 culturethat he explores though his photographic, cinematic, and curatorial practices. Sanjeet’s works has 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 in 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 townsthat were European coloniesalong 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 afilm 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.