“Love… is a quest for truth… truth in relation to something quite precise: what kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one? What is the world like when it is experienced, developed, and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be”- Alain Badiou.
”A Visual Diary on Love and Its Precariousness
In 2021, Choudhuri discovered The Mausoleum of Lovers, the diary of Hervé Guibert, which inspired his own project: an archive of images and love declarations. His work alternates between black and white for tenser moments and color for spontaneous gestures, without aiming to either sanctify or desecrate but rather to understand love.
Three summers ago, he began photographing a trans American couple at the beginning of their transition. By documenting their intimacy—through love, doubts, and discussions—Choudhuri examines the relationship between gender and the body. As an Indian immigrant coping with the grief of losing a former lover, this series became, for him, an exploration of queer love, often considered taboo.
Over time, the project expanded to include friends in both sexual and platonic relationships, some now separated and one deceased. The work took on a dimension of memory and impermanence, bearing witness to the fleeting nature of human connections. “- Collateral,Italy
Work in progress…
