TANIYA SARKAR India, b. 1992
“As a final note, I would like to thank Space118 for extending their support to complete my very small project ‘A Broken Hallelujah’, but a very relevant one, in the post pandemic period. Also for connecting me with the jurys and a mentor, Ronni Sen. I’m also blessed to have such a beautiful panel of co-grantees. I have learnt a lot from their work. All the best to them, all the best to Space118”
Taniya Sarkar (b. 1992) Kolkata, India) is a photographer. Her project Nothing Left to Call Home documents communal violence against women in Bengal since Partition. She is a 2021 recipient of the Generator Grant from Experimenter Gallery, the Social Documentary Photography Grant from the MurthyNAYAK Foundation, and was a finalist for the Inge Morath Award by the Magnum Foundation.
Taniya was awarded the prestigious Mary Ellen Mark Scholarship to attend the International Center of Photography’s programme in Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism (2021-2022), where she began working on Broken Hallelujah, a multimedia project that ponders life in a post-COVID world through the eyes of a musician grappling with mental health.
Taniya lives and works in Kolkata, India.
Mentor:
Ronny Sen
Proposed Project:
Broken Hallelujah
Project Overview:
Through her project, Taniya traced the fragile life of Bibhubrata, a thirty-year-old singer-songwriter living inside a crumbling, nearly two-hundred-year-old house in North Kolkata. Bibhubrata becomes not just an individual but a quiet chorus of many artists negotiating hunger, dignity, and the fading promise of music as sustenance.
