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The Coast
Hardbound book printed in April 2019. To order write to uglydog455@gmail.com with your shipping address
224 pages
Edition of 1200 + 100 Personal Copies
Photographs and Text by Sohrab Hura
Edited and Designed by Sohrab Hura
ISBN: 978-93-5351-042-8
Price: INR 3000/- (+shipping) in India, 68 USD (+shipping) outside India.
'The physical coastline becomes a metaphor for a ruptured piece of skin barely holding together a volatile state of
being ready to explode'
The book opens with an absurd short story that leads into a sequence of images taken along the Indian coastline.
While the photographs are made in real situations, the continuous removal and addition of context manipulates the
line between what is a fact and what is not, in a way not unlike how new realities are increasingly being engineered
today.
Some might imagine the book to be a fable like tale while others might recognize in it, reality. Either way, the book in
its stories alludes to undercurrents in a country that is seeing higher frequencies of violence: religious, caste, sexual
or otherwise and the increasing normalization of it which is far more absurd than the story itself.
There is respite towards the end as the book moves to the sea. The margin between land and water becomes a point
of release beyond which characters experience fear, surprise, anger, sadness, trust, anticipation, excitement,
contempt but also rapture. The short story at the beginning of the book also exists in eleven other iterations, each one
changing only a few words at a time like a game of Chinese Whispers. Just like with the images, each story forms a
slightly different meaning in every subsequent reading and it becomes one of a dozen different truths.
The Coast is the fourth book by Sohrab Hura.
Look It's Getting Sunny Outside!!!
Last copies available HERE
Hardbound with acid free mylar wrapped around dust jacket
165 x 220 mm
144 pages
Quadratone Offset Printing
Edition of 600
ISBN 978-93-5279-336-5
Thanks to Photobookstore.co.uk for the video
A Proposition For Departure
A manifesto published along with the AFTERWORD that i wrote for my first show, in 2017
Threadbound
9x13.5 Inches
20 pages
8 Sound Extraction charts
1 Music Chart for the three movement sound piece
Tritone Offset Printing
Edition of 600
No ISBN
Life is Elsewhere
Hardbound with acid free mylar wrapped around dust jacket
165 x 220 mm
144 pages
84 photographs
Tritone Offset Printing
Edition of 600
ISBN 978-93-5196-415-5
Thanks to Tipi Bookshop for the video
