Gourab Ganguli
Born in Kolkata, and now a resident of Bombay, Gourab Ganguli, is an Indian fashion photographer and documentary film-maker who has a shared love for the world of cinema and Indian handicrafts. Having studied Film-making at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, Gourab is a storyteller, an identity he has forged across years of working with several luxury and sustainable home-grown brands in India as a photographer and communication designer. Among other things, he spent the past four years extensively researching the life and craft of turban weavers based out of Kutch, a research project which culminated in his commissioned documentary titled Turban Weavers of Bhujodi, which is an exploration of the complexity of the turban weave which has been passed down across generations in close knit family units. He is currently working on his second documentary which looks at the history of the jamdani and chikankari embroidery on muslin in India and its evolution, with special focus on the patronage received by the artisans in the Mughal era.