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About FOI Studios

Founded in Kolkata in 2017 as Face of India, FOI Studios began with a belief that photography could preserve more than beauty. It could hold emotion, trust and memory. What started with a camera has grown into a cinematic world of photography, films, music, artists and visual stories from India. Through every project, we continue preserving real people, real feelings and creative history, one frame at a time.

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FOI Studios was founded in Kolkata in 2017, first as Face of India. The early years were spent learning how a camera could keep faith with a person standing in front of it. The studio grew from still photography into films, music, artist collaborations and a set of sister sites — always with Kolkata as the ground note. This journal is the next movement: a house for daily work that social platforms cannot be trusted to keep.

Philosophy

We believe a picture is a contract. It should still mean something when the algorithm has moved on. FOI publishes slowly enough to remain human, and permanently enough to remain findable. We do not invent applause. We do not fake counts. We keep the work dated, authored and editable.

Sourish Mukherjee, founder of FOI Studios
Sourish Mukherjee · Kolkata

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Sourish Mukherjee

FOI Studios is led from Kolkata by Sourish Mukherjee — photographer, director and composer. Daily practice lives on Instagram at @msourish and @foi.studios, on YouTube at FOI Official, and on Behance at behance.net/msourish. This site does not replace those rooms; it gives the studio a lock of its own.

Artists and Muses

FOI works with artists and muses as collaborators, not props. Artist stories in the journal are written with consent, kept public-safe on this main site, and dated like any other record. The courtyard sitting that opens this archive is the tone we intend to keep.

Meet the artists

The journey

Milestones

  1. 2017

    Face of India

    The studio is founded in Kolkata with a camera and a belief that photography can hold more than beauty.

  2. 2018–2023

    The house expands

    Still work grows into films, music, artist collaborations and a family of sister sites.

  3. 2024–2025

    Long-form projects

    The Hundredth Chamber, Sinderella, Naiad of the Dawn River and the Fujifilm sittings take shape as dated, returnable sequences.

  4. 2026

    The journal

    FOI opens this platform as a permanent home for daily publishing and a free member community.

Contact

Write to foi.fashionindia@gmail.com. Collaborations, sittings, press and archive questions all start there. The public rooms are this journal, Instagram @msourish, YouTube FOI Official, and Behance at behance.net/msourish.

Write through Contact, and by email at foi.fashionindia@gmail.com.