Ranaji Deb

Ranaji Deb is a storyteller born in Agartala, India. Growing up in the suburbs of Bombay he developed a curiosity towards nature, relationships and technology. Having a background education from diverse fields of bioinformatics, marketing communications and user experience design eventually led him to study photography at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU). In the classical studio he is exploring the boundaries of photography. Inspired by the Czech philosopher & theorist Vilem Flusser, his work has focused on deconstructing the medium and form. In 2018, Lonely Planet Magazine published his photograph titled “deconstruct” as one of the cover pages for its 100th anniversary edition. His passion for collecting stories behind people, places and photographs has been noted in journals since 2001. During the summer of 2019, he revisited this passion by hitchhiking across Europe for three months while relying on the kindness and cruelty of strangers. Being primarily experimental in nature, exploring the merging of memory, identity and society; his works have been exhibited in selected galleries across Ahmedabad, Pune, Prague, New York and Beroun.

About Festival

The Fotograf Festival explores intersections in photography and contemporary art – just like its partner projects – Fotograf Gallery and Fotograf Magazine. Festival is held in Autumn months and it presents current topic through solo as well as group exhibitions prepared in cooperation with invited domestic or foreign curators in various Prague galleries and institutions. A series of discussions, atist talks, site-specific events, public space exhibitions, projections and guided/commented tours accompany that exhibition program. Fotograf Festival is the only thematic- and curator-conceived photography festival in the Czech Republic. Its aim is to promote the photographic medium and its broader integration into contemporary art and into the conscience of the general public.

The discussions, at which invited experts debate each other on the current festival theme in the context of visual art, are meant not only for the expert public, but for the lay public as well. Fotograf Festival looks to build a tradition and a new platform for a photography festival that places Prague among other important centers for photography and the visual arts in Europe. It strives to share contemporary photographic art and the creation of a thematically-focused space where the general public and experts from around the world can meet.

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