Sanjeet Chowdhury started taking photographs during his college days in Kolkata in the late 1980s. A filmmaker by profession, he shoots on black & white film.
Sanjeet's involvement with photography, however, goes beyond taking pictures. He is a collector of albumen and silver gelatin prints, glass negatives and Daguerrotype plates. His other interests include collecting 19th and 20th century Indian prints (lithographs and oleographs), which were exhibited at the Birla Academies of Art and Culture, Kolkata and Mumbai, in 2006.
Sanjeet has also been making video art since 2001. His films have been screened at various international festivals including an international conference on 'Violence, Memory and Mutual Understanding' in Tel Aviv; the Indo-American Film Screenings at Freer Art Gallery, Washington; 'Transmediale', an international media and art festival in Berlin, Indian Art Sumit video lounge 2009, Stockholam ‘Frictive Familiarities’2010 and Shanghai 2010; and various film festivals across India.
 

He is based in Kolkata, and works out of Kolkata and Mumbai.

His works have been exhibited in:

• Home And The World at The Aicon Gallery, New York in     2010  • Art Against Terrorism, Khoj Kolkata in 2009  • Basel Art Fair, Switzerland in 2009  • 'Poetic Documentary' exhibited at The Aicon     Gallery, London in 2009.  • ‘Mirror Images’ at Gandhar Gallery, Kolkata in 2009;  • 'Patterns More Patterns' exhibited in the Ganges     Art Gallery, Kolkata in 2008;  • 'Glasscapes' at Weavers Studio, Kolkata in 2008;

• ‘To All Whom It May Concern' on Installations,     Photograph and Video Art, curated by Jayshree      Chakravarty at the Ganges Art Gallery, Kolkata in     2008;  • 'Mumbai 8', part of the series 'Showcase', at     Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan, Kolkata, in     2007.  • ‘The Incredible Moment', an exhibition co-     organized by People for Animals and the Times of     India showcasing 200 of India's best     photographers, in New Delhi in 2005.

Contact: sanjeetphoto@gmail.com