It started, as these things sometimes do, with a recurring dream: There is a woman lying prostrate on a bed. It is unclear who she is — mother? sister? lover? — but always she is dead. The dreamer has arrived, seemingly fresh from the battlefield, just in time to mourn her. The vision haunted the nighttime hours of the dreamer for 16 years.

If that dream seems ripe for interpretation and artistic reimagining, well, that’s kind of the idea. For the Kolkata-based photographer, Soumya Sankar Bose, the dream (whose dreamer is a lesbian and close friend of Mr. Sankar Bose’s) formed the kernel around which he crafted his new project, “Full Moon in a Dark Night,” in which he explores the psychological ramifications of anti-L.G.B.T.Q. laws and culture in present-day India.