The two friends said like all "other" couples, their only desire was to take a picture in the bedroom. One of them wears flowers, to maybe signify he is the 'female' of the two. I didn't direct them, but listened to them about how they wanted to be seen.

The underlying theme that ties these photographs is to give the LGBTQ community in India a chance to express their desires," says Kolkata-based photographer Soumya Sankar Bose of his series, Full Moon in a Dark Night, supported by the Magnum Foundation's Social Justice Fellowship. "Because of Section 377 of the IPC [which criminalises homosexuality in India], they are not allowed to really put their desires and wants out there, so I wanted to create a world where their dreams come true," says Bose of the project that he started working on two-and-a-half-years ago.