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Photography · 4 min

Raini Pramanik, Look 3: The Unseen Collection Is Here

350+ photographs from our 12 April 2026 shoot, released exclusively for FOI Diamond members. Step inside the set, explore the previews and find out how to access the full collection.

10 October 2026 · 0 likes · 0 comments · 1 views

Journal · 6 min

Project Zoya: Building a Home for an Imagined World

Project Zoya brings together fictional characters, photographic ideas and an evolving 3D world. A look inside FOI Cloud, the collections already available, and the house and gallery we are building in Blender.

9 October 2026 · 0 likes · 0 comments · 4 views

A woman seated on a rock beside a flowing stream, surrounded by boulders and green woodland.

Journal · 7 min

A Clearer Home for FOI.ONE: Memberships, Films and the Private Archive

Sourish Mukherjee explains FOI.ONE’s three membership groups, public archive catalogues, private edition delivery and the new FOI Creative Circle.

29 September 2026 · 0 likes · 0 comments · 39 views

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