Things Felt But Not Quite Expressed (2022 - Ongoing)
The Introvert, 2022Soft Pastel on paper
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Saturday Night, 2025Soft Pastel on paper
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Stranger Things Season 4 Episode 1, 2023
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Learning to slurp on noodles with Kosuke in Kamakura, 2023
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Siblings, 2023Soft Pastel on paper
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How parents remember things, 2023Soft Pastel on paper
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Sixteen and in love, 2025
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Did you feel the tremors last night?, 2023
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Asshole, 2023Soft Pastel on paper
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J’s upcoming holiday, 2022
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School days, 2022
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Mother, 2023Soft Pastel on paper
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Ma and Elsa, 2025
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Summer holidays in Chinsurah, 2024
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Summer trip with A, 2023
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Grandmothers, 2024
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It depends on how you look at it, 2025
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Dance, 2022
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It was spring but he was not there, 2022Soft Pastel on paper
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The misunderstood asshole, 2022-23
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Father with illness, 2022
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Mum’s winter garden, 2022Soft Pastel on paper
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Sunday mornings, 2025
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The green dress, 2022
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Show-off’s at the family lunch, 2022
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A sudden bout of love, just before bath, 2022
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Office chair, 2023
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The phone call, 2023
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Marc had decided to get us some chips, 2023
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That asshole roommate, 2025
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Birthday cake and pea soup in South Delhi, 2023Soft Pastel on paper
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Winter evenings at the skating rink in Pokhara, 2023
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Kebab mein haddi, 2023Soft Pastel on paper
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Negative, 2023
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Nightfall in Jahanpanah forest, 2023
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Evening light on Howrah bridge, 2025
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Secret meeting, 2023
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Television in the 90’s, 2023
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This was also television in the 90’s, 2024
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I told you so, 2025
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Reality check at 9 am, 2023
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And I carried on walking, 2023
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Everyday news, 2023
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The watcher, 2024
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2:43 am, 2023
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Summer trip with A, 2023Soft Pastel on paper
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Bassem Shakaa and Enaya Al-Fassed, a Palestinian couple living in Syria as political refuges – 1961 (Via Baladbox), 2024
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It’s falling apart, 2024
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The worst of them, 2024
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Summer days, 2024
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That online friend who you finally meet, 2025
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The story of my life, 2023
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An offering, 2022
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Bigoted relative, 2023
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That uncle who tries, 2022Soft Pastel on paper
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2:43 am, 2023
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Self portrait with new hair, 2023
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Grandfather right after a long overdue apology. Or at least an attempt at it, 2023Soft Pastel on paper
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Yesterday, 2022
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Mother, 2023
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Grandfather 1982, 2023Soft Pastel on paper
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A photograph, 2023
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Unfinished argument, 2023
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Monsoon evenings on Rabbit island, 2023
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M and her life on Hinge, 2024
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My mornings with the human, 2022
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Daily reminder, 2025
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Photographer in the family, 2024
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The bus screeched to a halt and I made a mad dash to the toilet at the far end of the stop but, 2023
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Somebody said ‘play’, 2023
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Snorkeling on Rottnest island, 2025
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The collective, 2025
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Marlene and mum, 2023Soft Pastel on paper
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Father and the last days of radiation, 2023Soft Pastel on paper
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Jose Antonio Pinto and his neverending dream, 2025
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Fireflies 1989, 2025
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3:26 am, 2023
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Nightfall, 2025
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French bread, 2022
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Guest, 2022
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The asshole who steals from my kitchen, 2022
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50th birthday in a hotel room, 2025
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Water ran out, 2023Soft Pastel on paper
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Friends, 2023
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Asshole with chair, 2024
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Last night, 2024Soft Pastel on paper
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Secret places, 2025Soft Pastel on paper
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Holidays with NT, 2025Soft Pastel on paper
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Family photograph, 2024
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A portrait of my father as a young man, 2025
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Creep, 2023
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Toad with butt, 2023
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School choir, 2023
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Sometimes I can relate, 2025
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Friends with kids, 2025Soft Pastel on paper
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Youngest sibling , 2023
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Privacy, 2023
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Remains of the day, 2023
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A movie, 2023
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Last night, 2022Soft Pastel on paper
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Remains of the day, 2024Soft Pastel on paper
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Mrs Treloar was proudly showing everyone the Cornish sunset when a rabbit ran by, 2025Soft Pastel on paper
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Office hours, New York, 2023
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Woman with great taste in music on the MTA, 2023
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Father, 2025
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Mother’s eyeliner, 2023
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The hair on my legs, 2025
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Bengali photographer, 2023
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All I wanted was to get myself a fucking beer, 2023
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A meme for the forties, 2024
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Parents on zoom, 2023
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Everyday meme, 2023
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Uno, 2023
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Done, 2023
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Done, 2023
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That uncle who keeps butt dialing, 2023
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A memory of my mother waiting for my father to return , 2023
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Seven summers ago, 2024Soft Pastel on paper
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Wheeeeeeeeeeee, 2023
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That asshole who is always at the right place at the right time, 2023
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Everyone’s got to stop sending me this meme, 2023
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There was a reason for shutting the door, 2023
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Night trek, 2024Soft Pastel on paper
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A sudden gust of wind, 2023
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The beginning of a secret love affair at dinner last night, 2023
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When you finally find someone who you want to love, 2025
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Hug, 2024
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Movie night, 2024
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Felt seen, 2024
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Unimpressed friend, 2024
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Mother and father dreaming in their sleep, 2023
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The rock in her hand, 2023
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The last light, 2023
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Self-portrait as a nineteen year old, 2024Soft Pastel on paper
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Grandfather after grandmother’s passing, 2025
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Grandmother, 2023Soft Pastel on paper
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Grandmother, 2023Soft Pastel on paper
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Things Felt But Not Quite Expressed are reflections on everyday ordinariness with notions of love, joy, relationships and the familial at their core. The last two years were stippled by a series of events including damage caused to my lungs because of covid, a sudden death in the family and more recently the diagnosis of an illness with my father. For some time now, I have been unable to make photographs not only because of the aforementioned circumstances but also because of a growing numbness to the photographic image.
In June 2022, by chance I discovered drawing and felt unexpectedly attracted to it- maybe it was because of that long-forgotten feeling of tenderness which felt even more palpable the more I realized how one could also sculpt an image into existence with one’s fingers. Until then photography had taught me to collect the whole image all at once and I had missed out on the slowness induced by the process of drawing altogether. Or maybe it was because now the image drawn would constantly fall apart with each new layer added because of the softness of the pastels. It felt so different from that stiff permanence ushered in by the camera to be able to record and document, that I had grown so accustomed to and then finally wary of. Either way, these first drawings have allowed me to continue to collect together the fuzziness of memories as well as to give an extended imagination to my curiosities in a journal like manner not dissimilar to my early works in photography when making images was to experience catharsis to deal with a difficult period of illness at home at the time.
I still continue to search for undercurrents of the social and political even if looking towards my more immediate space, my human world continues to comprise animals as well, text continues to be a strong companion of the image as titles to the drawings to temper the tone of the images and I even recognize a familiar editing tendency drawn from the process of building photobooks that has started to emerge as this body of work continues to grow. Only the wavelength (language) and temperament of these more recent images drawn in pastels are different.
Sohrab Hura
January 2023
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