Atlas of Serenities: Chronicles of Little Intimacies
Date: 22nd – 30th November, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Venue: 1st Floor, Amphitheatre, KCC
Kolkata Centre for Creativity presents Atlas of Serenities: Chronicles of Little Intimacies, a photography exhibition by journalist, writer, translator, and photographer Nazes Afroz, as part of AMI Arts Festival 2025.
The exhibition offers audiences a contemplative journey through Afroz’s lens — capturing urban stillness, fleeting human encounters, and the poetry of everyday spaces. His images blend documentary clarity with literary sensitivity, inviting us to see intimacy not as spectacle but as a quiet presence in our shared lives.
Special events, curator-led walkthroughs, and conversations will contextualize the exhibition, deepening the dialogue between photography, journalism, and literature.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Nazes Afroz has been a journalist for over four decades, 18 of which were spent with the BBC in London as producer and senior editor covering South, Central, and West Asia. Currently based in Kolkata, he writes long-form essays in English and Bangla and is also a celebrated translator of Syed Mujtaba Ali’s works, including In a Land Far from Home (2015), Tales of a Voyager (2023), and Shabnam (2024).
Since 2015, Nazes has exhibited his photography across three continents, with subjects ranging from urban stillness to the Kabuliwalas of Kolkata, as well as wildlife and bird photography. His work blends reportage with lyricism, combining the eye of an editor with the patience of a poet.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Atlas of Serenities: Chronicles of Little Intimacies presents a suite of photographic narratives tracing quiet thresholds of urban life, memory, and encounters from Afroz’s travels across the world. Through stillness, intimacy, and the poetics of the everyday, his photographs become more than records—they are meditations on the fragile beauty of fleeting moments.
The exhibition is accompanied by special events, curator-led walkthroughs, and conversations, offering audiences deeper engagement with the art of seeing.
