A muse in white lace before Victoria Memorial at golden hour, Kolkata

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The journal opens

FOI Studios· 18 August 2026

FOI Studios now has a permanent home for the work, the days, and the people who return.

FOI Studios began in Kolkata in 2017 as Face of India. For years the work lived where most contemporary studios live: on rented platforms, in disappearing stories, in feeds that do not remember yesterday.

This journal is the correction.

Here we will publish news, photography previews, production diaries, articles, films, music updates and artist stories — not as a replacement for the rooms we already keep, but as the house those rooms belong to.

More than a social feed. A permanent home for our art, stories and community.

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Muse before Victoria Memorial
Kolkata, golden hour.
The FOI house at night
The house after the lights are decided.
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  • Aria K.· 18 Aug 2026, 11:20 am

    The line about rented platforms disappearing is the reason I joined. A journal that still remembers yesterday feels like a physical room.

    • Dev Malik· 18 Aug 2026, 02:05 pm

      Yes. I kept screenshots of old posts for years. Glad the house is keeping the originals now.

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