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  • Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam has awarded the Eye Art & Film Prize 2025 to Sohrab Hura.
  • Hura works across film and photography, focusing on the tensions that tear at Indian society.
  • The Eye Prize was established to promote and support an artist or filmmaker who is contributing in an exceptional way to new developments at the intersection of visual art and film.

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Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam has awarded the Eye Art & Film Prize to the Indian artist Sohrab Hura. The committee commended Hura for his multidisciplinary approach to a broad spectrum of themes and the personal note that he lends to the social critique in his creations. The Eye Prize includes a 30,000 EUR monetary award, provided with the support of Ammodo, and enables the recipient to develop a new work to be presented at a joint exhibition.

Hura, a native of New Delhi, entered the world of art at the age of twenty-one when he took up photography during his studies in economics as a means of coping with his mother's illness. He gained experience while apprenticing with a professional photographer. Encouraged by the positive feedback that he received from the proprietor of a local film lab, Hura expanded the scope of media that he worked with. Stretching across film and photography, through drawings and paintings, Hura's creative output represents an interconnected whole.

A black and white image of a cracked wall, with a television on the right side of the frame, and feet just visible at the bottom of the frame.
Sohrab Hura, Life is Elsewhere, 2016. Courtesy of the artist.

Marked by a versatility in both subject and medium, Hura's works manifest an incisive critique of social circumstances, whether it is when he recounts an intimate and vulnerable moment with his sick mother or when he is uncovering the absurdity of violence and disinformation. Hura likewise focuses on the societal and economic tensions that tear at Indian society, such as the poetic photo reportage in which he documents daily life in the divided province of Kashmir.

An image in two halves, with a stem of flowers on the left and a figure with only the lower half of their face visible, with an open mouth with lipstick, on the right.
Sohrab Hura, Images from The Coast, 2020. Courtesy of the artist and Magnum Photos.

Hura's work was featured recently at solo and group exhibitions at MoMA PS1 in New York (2025), Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town (2022) and Huis Marseille (2021), while his films have been screened at Berlin International Film Festival in 2021 and Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen in 2020. His works are part of the permanent collections at MoMA in New York, Ishara Art Foundation in Dubai and Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) in India.

The Eye Prize was established in 2015 as a vehicle for promoting and supporting an artist or filmmaker who is building an outstanding oeuvre with a personal vision and contributing in an exceptional way to new developments at the intersection of visual art and film. Past recipients include Chia-Wei Hsu (2024), Garrett Bradley (2023), Saodat Ismailova (2022) and Hito Steyerl (2015), among others. More on Sohrab Hura and his work can be found on his site.

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