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On “Global Photographies”: Limits and Possibilities

Koyna Tomar Mar 31, 2025

On 28 February 2025, at a panel discussion at the India International Centre, New Delhi, the co-editors, Duncan Wooldridge and Lucy Soutter, shared the conceptual and editorial process behind the making of the book Global Photographies, while Tanvi Mishra, writer and curator, presented her contribution on “decolonial” artistic practice in the South Asian context.

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Making a Photograph: Pictorialism, Craft and the Legacy of D.R. Mody

Avani Tandon Vieira Mar 29, 2025

Curated by Veerangana Kumari Solanki and conceptualised by Tapan Mody, grandson of D.R. Mody, the exhibition DADA - An Accidental Pictorialist situates the photographer’s work within the tradition of Pictorialism, a movement that privileged principles of beauty and composition over those of record-keeping, approaching the photographic medium as an art form rather than a tool for documentation.
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On Photographic Archives at the Chennai Photo Biennale

Mallika Visvanathan Mar 28, 2025

Drawing from a range of archival sources, artists and curators participating in the recently concluded Chennai Photo Biennale engage with different imaginations of photographic archives.

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Fragmented Memory and Personal History: On Reena Mohan’s ‘Kamlabai’

Akshay Shelar Mar 26, 2025

The film Kamlabai (1992), directed by Reena Mohan, was screened at the NFDC-National Film Archives of India (as a part of the Film Circle screenings) on 8 March 2025. Mohan’s conversations with Kamlabai Gokhale, considered the first lady of Indian cinema, form the basis of this documentary.

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It Feels Like Flight: Sarker Protick’s Akash Kalo Megh

Annalisa Mansukhani Mar 24, 2025

Presented by Shrine Empire, Akash Kalo Megh (Shadows in the Sky) was Sarker Protick’s second solo exhibition, on view in conjunction with the India Art Fair. Spanning multiple bodies of work, the exhibition unfolded as a singular, seamless experience—an invitation to see through the artist’s eyes.
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Pink Revolution: Nishtha Jain's Gulabi Gang

Anoushka Antonnette Mathews Mar 22, 2025

This Women’s Day, Bangalore International Centre organised a screening of Nishtha Jain’s 2014 film Gulabi Gang. Amidst the ongoing ‘celebrations’ and many shades of pink on display, Gulabi Gang stands as a stark reminder of the inequalities that exist not only between men and women on the basis of gender but also between women themselves, given the vast differentials in socio-economic realities, i.e., between rural and urban, upper caste and Dalit-Bahujan, Hindu and Muslim and so on.

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Cycles of Enclosure: Caste, Class and the Unequal Marriage “Market” in Jayant Somalkar’s Sthal

Sucheta Chakraborty Mar 21, 2025

Premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2023, where it won the NETPAC award for best film from the Asia-Pacific region, Jayant Somalkar’s Marathi film Sthal (A Match) develops in between iterations of the ‘kanda-poha’ programme—formal meetings for bride selection that take their name from the popular Maharashtrian snack that is typically served in such situations
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On Process at the Chennai Photo Biennale

Kamayani Sharma Mar 19, 2025

Animated by the question ‘Why Photograph?’, the fourth edition of the Chennai Photo Biennale draws attention to the histories and fundamentals of the photographic process.
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"Listening to the Whispers": On Memory and Cyclical Time in Arpan Mukherjee’s “Impermanence”

Radhika Mar 17, 2025

In his introspective exhibition Impermanence, which was on view at Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai from 14 February–15 March 2025, Arpan Mukherjee confronts his own experience of migration from Adityapur to Bolpur in Birbhum district of West Bengal in the 1980s as a lens through which to tell the tale of socio-cultural changes in post-independent India’s rural spaces.

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The Road to Bolpur: Migration and Mourning in Arpan Mukherjee’s “Impermanence”

Radhika Mar 13, 2025

Arpan Mukherjee’s deep exploration of rural-urban migration from Adityapur to Bolpur through photographs, video installation and sound recordings in his ongoing exhibition "Impermanence" (2025), on view at Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai from 14 February–15 March 2025, is a poignant visual document of the changes in social structures in rural Bengal in post-independent India.

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Frissons of a Novel Kind: The Sher-Gil Family Archive

Pronita Tripathi Mar 10, 2025

Pronita Tripathi delves into the ongoing exhibition "A Hungarian-Indian Family of Artists: Master and Disciple" at Jaipur House, the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), on view from 31 January–31 March 2025, and discusses the depiction of leisure in the vast photographic archives of the Sher-Gil family.
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Fragments of Memory at the Chennai Photo Biennale

Mallika Visvanathan Mar 07, 2025

Given the crucial role photography plays as an aid for memory, it also raises important questions about our engagement with the past, present and future. Artists at the Chennai Photo Biennale reflect on the ways in which memory and meaning are influenced by time and space in their practice.
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A Shared Place Between Memory and History: Nimi Ravindran’s Exhibition-Performance

Aparna Chivukula Mar 05, 2025

To Forget is to Remember is to Forget, Ravindran’s exhibition-performance which had its tenth iteration last month at the Goethe-Institut in Bengaluru uses video, sound, photo and print installations as well as a storytelling performance to explore personal and public memory.
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Framing Urban Landscapes at the Chennai Photo Biennale

Vishal George Mar 03, 2025

As our urban landscapes continuously undergo transformations, can art help reconcile what we lose in the process? Artists at the Chennai Photo Biennale turn their gaze towards and into their urban environments to capture the weaving of memory, humour, intimacy, culture and belonging.
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Majestic Mustang: A Look at Kishor Kayastha's Panoramic Photographs

Alfa M. Shakya Mar 01, 2025

In thirty panoramic photographs, Kishor Kayastha captures the grandeur and splendour of Mustang, opened to foreigners only in 1992, thus being dubbed the “forbidden kingdom.” His exhibition MUSTANG Nostalgia: A Two-Decade Odyssey (2025) is the culmination of two decades of exploration and dedication that invited visitors to step into an almost surreal world.
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