SUPARNO BANERJEE’s professional career was spent in engineering and business. Photography became his personal space where logic embraced intuition. Drawn to the tension between structure and spontaneity, he makes images that transform scenes from urban life and the environment into visual riddles—inviting viewers to reimagine what they’re seeing and where it might come from.
His work has been shown in Beijing, Kolkata, Thimpu, Washington, D.C., and other international venues. His photographs are part of the permanent collection at the Royal Textile Museum in Thimpu, Bhutan.
Suparno’s creative practice often unfolds in collaboration. With his wife, Neeti, he co-authored Weaving Rainbows, a visual documentary project celebrating Bhutan’s culture and women weavers, and Apricus, a poetic dialogue blending Neeti’s verse with his photography.
Grounded yet exploratory, Suparno’s work is visual storytelling, often compressing time and space, where the familiar turns abstract and the everyday becomes quietly uncanny.
Paris Sketches: A Photographic Sketchbook Exploring Time, Transformation, and Tradition.
Cities are studies in contrasts where forces of modernization continuously reshape their landscape, yet an unwavering dedication to preserving cultural heritage remains at their core. This delicate balance between change and continuity is one aspect that gives certain cities their enduring charm.
This first series of photographs encapsulates my reflections on Paris. Each image serves as a vignette - a visual diary of Parisian neighborhoods and their ever-evolving identity.
A compression of time and space.
While each photograph stands alone, certain elements weave through the series; each centers around a distinctive piece of the city's heritage, such as:
Created over a period of time and often in multiple locations, sometimes over days, each photograph captures the subtle shifts in Paris’ unique rhythm. Though a mere fraction of the lifespans of these enduring urban structures at the heart of the images, each image offers a glimpse into the dynamic environment they have anchored for decades and sometimes for more than a century.
Each layer within an image tells a story.
A story of a path taken.
Moments preserved.
The passage of time.
Each photograph has been made on film.
Each image is a single negative, and none has been digitally manipulated in any way.
His work has been shown in Beijing, Kolkata, Thimpu, Washington, D.C., and other international venues. His photographs are part of the permanent collection at the Royal Textile Museum in Thimpu, Bhutan.
Suparno’s creative practice often unfolds in collaboration. With his wife, Neeti, he co-authored Weaving Rainbows, a visual documentary project celebrating Bhutan’s culture and women weavers, and Apricus, a poetic dialogue blending Neeti’s verse with his photography.
Grounded yet exploratory, Suparno’s work is visual storytelling, often compressing time and space, where the familiar turns abstract and the everyday becomes quietly uncanny.
Paris Sketches: A Photographic Sketchbook Exploring Time, Transformation, and Tradition.
Cities are studies in contrasts where forces of modernization continuously reshape their landscape, yet an unwavering dedication to preserving cultural heritage remains at their core. This delicate balance between change and continuity is one aspect that gives certain cities their enduring charm.
This first series of photographs encapsulates my reflections on Paris. Each image serves as a vignette - a visual diary of Parisian neighborhoods and their ever-evolving identity.
A compression of time and space.
While each photograph stands alone, certain elements weave through the series; each centers around a distinctive piece of the city's heritage, such as:
- The Art Nouveau subway entrances ("Metropolitain") designed by Hector Guimard. Of the approximately 80 installed in the early 1900s, only around 44 remain in Paris today — testaments to a bygone era.
- Architectural masterpieces that seamlessly bridge centuries, such as I.M. Pei’s glass pyramid at the Louvre and the architecture of the Samaritaine building on Rue de Rivoli. Their minimalist designs reflect and amplify the historic structures surrounding them.
- The iconic streetlamps lining the streets, illuminating the pathways around central Paris.
- The ubiquitous "Colonne Morris" advertising columns, accentuating the city’s bustling streets, announcing cultural events and performances.
Created over a period of time and often in multiple locations, sometimes over days, each photograph captures the subtle shifts in Paris’ unique rhythm. Though a mere fraction of the lifespans of these enduring urban structures at the heart of the images, each image offers a glimpse into the dynamic environment they have anchored for decades and sometimes for more than a century.
Each layer within an image tells a story.
A story of a path taken.
Moments preserved.
The passage of time.
Each photograph has been made on film.
Each image is a single negative, and none has been digitally manipulated in any way.
Suparno Banerjee
Guimard 1
$1,000.00
$1,000.00
Paris Metro 1
$1,000.00
$1,000.00
Samaritaine 1
$1,000.00
$1,000.00
Courtyard off Rue du Bac
$800.00
$800.00
Louvre in Summer
$800.00
$800.00