Indoor
The Grand Prix
As a child, Debsuddha often spent time in the suburbs of Kolkata, India, where two of his aunts, Gayatri and Swati Goswami, were born albinos. They suffered discrimination from a young age and avoided going out. This circumstance led these sisters to build their own isolated inner world. Their home became their daytime sanctuary, where they enjoyed their passion for music, before venturing outdoors at nightfall. Debsuddha chose chiaroscuro to depict this environment in 2020. Combining spontaneous snapshots and staged portraits, these tender melancholic images reveal the close bond these two sisters share. Crossroads, commended with the 2023/24 Images Vevey Book Award, is a powerful illustration of love and resilience and an intimate portrait of social exclusion.
Debsuddha is laureate of the Images Vevey Book Award 2023/2024 for his project Crossroads.
Exhibition layout and design by Images Vevey and the artist
The Crossroads installation is presented at the Musée Jenisch Vevey alongside the other winning projects of the Grand Prix Images Vevey 2023/2024.
With the support of Artlink
The project Crossroads is published by Éditions Images Vevey.
