Buku Sarkar

Buku Sarkar is a photographer and writer who lives in Calcutta and New York. Her fiction has been published in n+1, her nonfiction in Live Mint, and her photographic work has appeared in The New York Times, Documentum, and F-Stop. (September 2020)

The Making of a Photowali

A creative artist on how she toggles between photography and writing, just as she moves between New York and Calcutta.

September 14, 2020

Sharmila, the Chaiwalla, and Me

I began to visit the women in the Basti almost every day. I promised I would make a book about them. I called them my Saturday Morning Laundry Ladies. They called me Photowali Didi.

September 14, 2020

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