Sohrab Hura on the strange duality of life in Kashmir’s winter

“Photography has always been a way to meet people, a way for me to be in touch with the world,” Sohrab Hura says. “The joy is in the process of meandering without a precise destination and when it came to photographing Kashmir, it was the people who became the most important focus of all.”

The 44-year-old Indian photographer and visual artist has spent the past decade documenting the personal and deeply human stories taking place throughout his country. 

A member of Magnum Photos, Hura has been shortlisted for Photobook of the Year in the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards and his work has been on display in New York’s MoMA PS1 and in London’s Kings Place. Entirely self-taught, he initially studied economics but developed an interest in photography while taking playful images of his classmates in college.

Read the feature in Hyphen.

[This piece was published on 27/04/26]