Debmalya Roy Choudhuri (b. 1991, Kolkata) is an Indian artist based in New York. Adopting the form of a journal, they confront personal trauma, mental health issues, gender, and the “queerness” of identity, body, and space. Over time, their creative practice has naturally flowed from finding a sense of belonging in one place to connecting to people by establishing proximity to one person at a time. Currently, they work on long-term collaborative projects that engage an interdisciplinary approach toward image-making, primarily engaging photography and text. This spontaneous diaristic and personal approach adopted by the author aims to provoke the uncomfortable questions of identity & representation, the nature of the human condition, and the specifics of image reproduction and consumption, often latent in the cultural blind spots of society. Their work has been in the British Journal of Photography, The Art Newspaper, Trigger Magazine, FOMU Antwerp, Elephant Magazine, Der-Grief, Blind Magazine, AD Digest India, etc. Their recent shows include Enfoco Inc and the LGBT Center, NYC, The Discovery Award, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Tilt Institute of Photographic Image, Philadelphia, NIDA Photographic Symposium, Lithuania, and Angkor Photo Festival, Cambodia, among others.
