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“Incoherence is important to me,” Sohrab Hura observed in a 2019 interview. “It is a reflection of the violent deluge of imagery that I feel I am living with every day.” Hura’s evocative work is animated by a deeply personal way of parsing the world, through projects that have focused on cities along the Ganges River, the geography of the lower Mississippi River, and more recently in Kashmir. Relying on a complex narrative structure, his award-winning book (2019) comprises a carefully sequenced collection of repetitive and immersive images. A member of Magnum Photos and an editor and curator in his own right, Hura, who is based in New

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