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The Unseen Costs of Nepal’s Hydropower: Samagra Shah’s Photo Series

Alfa M. Shakya May 27, 2026

Conceived as part of the 2024 PhotoCircle Fellowship, Since the Time of the Gods Our Boats Have Been in These Rivers (2024-ongoing) by Samagra Shah questions the dominant narratives of development in contemporary Nepal, highlighting the social and ecological disruptions caused by hydropower projects.

Land, Development and Change: Amit Machamasi’s Not The Same Anymore

Alfa M. Shakya Jan 23, 2025

Not The Same Anymore (2023) by Amit Machamasi documents the shape-shifting nature of the land around his home. The series explores the intertwining of human stories with the environment by featuring subjects who work in brick kilns, most of whom come from rural parts of Nepal and have moved into the Valley to find work and economic progress. Inanimate objects also find a special storytelling moment in Machamasi’s photographs.

Other Worlds Within: Arhant Shrestha’s Between Space and Memory

Alfa M. Shakya Apr 11, 2024

Arhant Shrestha’s photographs construct, through an almost childlike wonder and mysticism, an identity of the city he inhabits and what it means to him. This album includes selections from his series Between Space and Memory (2021–), presenting a coming-of-age through the interiority of family and the discovery of a city.

Imaging the Black Box: Tara Kelton’s Portraits of Uber as Imagined by Its Drivers

Anisha Baid Jun 18, 2021

Tara Kelton is an Indian-American artist whose work probes the traditional figure of the artist (and craftsperson) in relation to the digital.

Gender and the Veil: Habiba Nowrose’s Performative Portraits

Anisha Baid May 22, 2021

Habiba Nowrose's practice uses portrait photography to produce a complex reflection on the representation of gender, identity and the feminine subject.

An Experiential Reality: Surrealism and Lionel Wendt

Anisha Baid May 20, 2021

In this continuing presentation of images from the book Lionel Wendt’s Ceylon—one of the few available collections of this pioneering photographer’s work—we consider the influence of surrealism, constructivism and larger modernist concerns visible in his compositions.

People of Sri Lanka: Lionel Wendt's Portraits

Anisha Baid May 19, 2021

Lionel Wendt was an important figure in the development of modern and contemporary art in Sri Lanka (erstwhile Ceylon) who carved an influential legacy as a photographer, concert pianist and critic in the early and mid-twentieth-century.

Material Investigations: Selected Works of Arpan Mukherjee

Anisha Baid Apr 28, 2021

Arpan Mukherjee is an artist and educator working extensively with nineteenth-century photographic processes to address various contemporary socio-economic and political issues.

One, Many, And Those Lost In Between: The Photographic Works of Basir Mahmood

Anisha Baid Apr 13, 2021

Basir Mahmood is an artist and filmmaker based in Lahore and Amsterdam. His photographic work includes poetically constructed images that reflect upon social and historical realities embedded within the terrain of the mundane.

Reframing Generic Images: Landscape Photographs by Nihaal Faizal

Anisha Baid Mar 19, 2021

Through minimalist artistic interventions, Nihaal Faizal reframes the contexts of the images and objects that he appropriates.

Kheti Badi: Chinar Shah’s Photographs of her Digital Farm

Anisha Baid Mar 09, 2021

Kheti Badi is a series of photographs by Chinar Shah, made as screenshots on the (once) popular Facebook game FarmVille.

Inner World of Conflict: Mayco Naing’s Portraits of Silence

Anisha Baid Mar 06, 2021

Naing’s practice emerges as a response to the repressive and totalitarian political regime that has dominated Myanmar’s recent history.

Inner and Outer Lives: The Untold Stories of Women by Homai Vyarawalla

Anisha Baid Feb 13, 2021

Curated by Sabeena Gadihoke and supported by the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, Inner and Outer Lives: The Many Worlds of Homai Vyarawalla was an exhibition of photographs by India’s pioneering female photojournalist held at the Shridharani Gallery, Triveni Kala Sangam in New Delhi.

Indigenous Pasts, Sustainable Futures: Images from The Skin of Chitwan

Anisha Baid Feb 10, 2021

The Skin of Chitwan, an online exhibition by the Nepal Picture Library is a manifestation of the ongoing research project Indigenous Pasts, Sustainable Futures that attempts to document, archive and share Nepal’s marginalised histories.

Collaged Photographs: Selected Works of Rupesh Man Singh

Anisha Baid Feb 08, 2021

An artist and photographer based in Kathmandu, Rupesh Man Singh is part of the collective called Film Foundry which operates as a studio and a pedagogic space for the practice of analogue photographic processes.

Experimental Image-making: Jagadish Upadhya's Collective of Film-based Photography

Anisha Baid Jan 18, 2021

Founded and run by photographer Jagadish Upadhya, Film Foundry is a collective concerned with alternative forms of photography on film.

Rape is Political: Ashfika Rahman’s Portraits from the Khagrachari Hills

Anisha Baid Jan 18, 2021

Ashfika Rahman’s photo series titled Rape is Political attempts to visualise and give voice to the political nature of sexual violence in the Khagrachari hills in the borderlands of India, Bangladesh and Myanmar.

Shooting Sri Lanka: Abby Robinson on Sri Lankan Film Production

Ankan Kazi Mar 22, 2024

Approaching film production as a site of labour, “experience and infrastructure”, Abby Robinson's photo essay follows the complicated trajectories of several Sinhalese films as well as Tamil ones, noting their discourse of difference (hardened by the brutal reality of war) that percolates into their narrative styles, shooting methods and uses of landscape.

Polycolonial Visions: The Photographs of Frederick Fiebig

Ankan Kazi Jun 29, 2021

Frederick Fiebig was an itinerant commercial lithographer and photographer who worked across a wide expanse of the colonial world in the nineteenth-century.

Transforming Landscapes: Painted Postcards of Colonial Calcutta

Ankan Kazi May 11, 2021

It was only after the arrival of Lord Wellesley that erstwhile colonial Calcutta became the subject of systematic town planning and civic improvement.

Of Resistance and Memory: Picturing the Mukti Bahini

Ankan Kazi May 10, 2021

The Mukti Bahini (Liberation Army) is a collection of military, paramilitary and civilian forces that fought in the struggle for the liberation of Bangladesh in 1971.

Cigarette Cards: Mapping Relations between Consumers, Colonialism and Trade

Ankan Kazi Feb 12, 2021

Tobacco companies often sought to create narratives through the cigarette card series they produced—whether locating them in the colonies or the metropolitan centers.

Legacy Threads: Reading History through the NE India AV Archive

Ankita Ghosh May 14, 2024

Legacy Threads, a group exhibition presented by the Northeast India AV Archive and curated by D. Junisha Khongwir weaves together a story told through family photographs and community archives, and spotlights the vibrant history of the diverse communities based in the region.

The Impulse to Remember: On Vikrant Kano’s In Search of Home

Annalisa Mansukhani Jun 29, 2024

In Search of Home (1939–2021) is a durational work by Delhi-based artist Vikrant Kano that gathers his family’s history, tracing a genealogy of trauma, violence, relocation and displacement back to the event of the Partition and its aftereffects.

Moonsongs for Earth: Musical Imaginaries of Revolution

Arundhati Chauhan Jul 20, 2024

Prasiit Sthapit’s ongoing documentary series Moonsongs for Earth (2022–) chronicles the histories and legacies of music in the midst of the ten-year-long war in Nepal between the erstwhile constitutional monarchic government and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist).

Expanded Cinemas, Archival Possibilities: Josef Wirsching and Early Film Histories

Arundhati Chauhan Mar 13, 2024

The archive presents larger questions around the photographic image, the visual influences in the staged images of the actors on set to the mise-en-scene captured by Wirsching, as well as questions of infrastructural archive building.

On Photographer-Soldiers: Looking at Images from Wartime Myanmar

Avrati Bhatnagar Apr 29, 2021

Photographic practice has been implicated in global wars since its inception. In fact, the earliest use of the camera on an international stage was carried out by Roger Fenton in 1855 to picture the consequences of the Crimean War in Europe.

Streets of Intimacy: William Gedney's Banaras Photographs

Avrati Bhatnagar Mar 04, 2021

Marked by a distinct affinity towards documenting existence at the margins of society, the oeuvre of North American photographer William Gedney offers vibrant and wide-ranging views.

Valley of Sorrow: Ashish Birulee’s Documentation of Uranium Mining

Daisy Gidwani Mar 26, 2026

Ashish Birulee’s photo essay The Nuclear Wound: Stories of Survival from Jadugoda (2013–ongoing) documents the destruction of Jadugoda’s natural topography due to uranium mining, foregrounding the enduring effects of nuclear exposure on both the environment and local communities.

A Belief in Co-Existence: On Ajay Dhoke’s Waghoba

Daisy Gidwani Jan 12, 2026

Ajay Dhoke’s photo essay Waghoba (2018–ongoing) documents Tadoba in Maharashtra, a dense forest landscape inhabited by Gond communities—where quiet markers of identity and worship converge—serving both as protective signs to deter tigers from entering villages and as memorials for those lost to attacks.

In Pursuit of the Street: Aashim Tyagi’s Archive of India’s Typography

Daisy Gidwani Sep 06, 2025

Reflecting on signage as a product of the technology of its time and as a marker of transition in local cultures and economies, photographer Aashim Tyagi’s Street Type Archive documents an eclectic mix of materials, colours and influences expressed through diverse forms of typography and signage across India.

The Power of Moving Image: An Extract from Filmi Jagat

Editorial Apr 09, 2021

Filmi Jagat: A Scrapbook (Shared Universe of Early Hindi Cinema) was published by Niyogi Books in 2014 and presents the dynamic contours of graphic authorship by an elusive compiler, Mangaldas V. Lohana.

Of Life and Labour: Sohrab Hura's Pati

Gulmehar Dhillon Nov 30, 2021

Sohrab Hura’s eleven-minute-long black-and-white documentary film depicts the realities of a small village in the Central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

Manual Scavenging in Tamil Nadu: Palani Kumar’s Documentation of the Practice

Gulmehar Dhillon Oct 21, 2021

Chennai-based photographer M. Palani Kumar’s work with manual scavengers began when he was the cinematographer (2015–17) for Kakkoos, a documentary film by the activist and filmmaker Divya Bharathi.

Women of the Sea: Palani Kumar Documents the Seaweed Farmers of Tamil Nadu

Gulmehar Dhillon Oct 20, 2021

In 2019, during a fellowship with the PARI, M. Palani Kumar, a photographer from Madurai, headed to the sea with seaweed harvesters from Bharathinagar, near Mayakulam village of Thiruppullani block.

A Quest for Dignity: The Dalit Experience in Nepal

Gulmehar Dhillon Jun 01, 2021

Edited by Diwas Raja Kc and produced by NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati, the book (emerging from an exhibition in 2016) combines text with photographs to depict the brutality and structural injustice that the Dalit community has been subjected to over the course of Nepal’s history.

Nizamuddin at Night: Gauri Gill Photographs Her Neighbourhood

Gulmehar Dhillon May 31, 2021

Gauri Gill, the contemporary Indian photographer, has spent nearly two decades photographing life in the everyday.

Box Camera NOW: Lukas Birk’s Afghan Box Camera Project

Gulmehar Dhillon Feb 12, 2021

The Afghan Box Camera or “Kamra-e-Faoree” is a handmade device that acts as both an instant camera and a darkroom within one large contraption.

The Silence of “Others”: Bharat Choudhary’s Exploration of Young Muslim Lives

Gulmehar Dhillon Feb 09, 2021

The project documents the emotional struggles of Muslim youth in the West as they confront negative perceptions and discrimination.

Truth to Power: Shahidul Alam at Rubin Museum of Art

Gulmehar Dhillon Jan 18, 2021

Rubin Museum of Art, New York opened the exhibition Shahidul Alam: Truth to Power on 8 November 2019 following his incarceration.

Photography as Protest: Anoli Perera’s I Let My Hair Loose

Ketaki Varma Apr 18, 2021

Perera seems to offer this photo-performance as a form of protest against the male gaze.

Who is a Cine-Worker? Scenes from Debashree Mukherjee’s Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City

Ketaki Varma Mar 13, 2021

Debashree Mukherjee’s book Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City excavates the histories of people and places that make up the cine-ecology of erstwhile colonial Bombay, particularly between the late 1920s and the early 1940s—a period characterised by the shift from silent to talkie films.

What is a Cine-Ecology? Scenes from Debashree Mukherjee’s Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City

Ketaki Varma Mar 12, 2021

“Filmmaking depends on a dense network of human and nonhuman energies,” writes Debashree Mukherjee as she explains the photographs in her recent book Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City.

Last Farewell: My Grandma

Macy Castañeda-Lee Nov 21, 2025

Pahimakas: Aking Lola (Last Farewell: My Grandma) by Macy Castañeda-Lee is a personal project that captures her grandmother, Diodora Castañeda's battle with Parkinson’s disease.

Children of the Snowy Peak: Kunga Tashi Lepcha’s Elemental World

Mallika Visvanathan Feb 22, 2026

Recently displayed at the tenth edition of the Serendipity Arts Festival (2025), as part of the show Murmurations curated by Ravi Agarwal, Kunga Tashi Lepcha's ongoing multimedia series Children of the Snowy Peak (2019–) seeks a re-imagination of the relationship with land and serves as an act of reclamation through an assertion of Indigeneity as worldview.

Reclaiming the “Coolie Belle”: On Renluka Maharaj’s Pelting Mangoes

Najrin Islam Jul 28, 2022

On her discovery of French photographer Felix Morin’s portraiture work on the Indo-Caribbean “Coolie Belles”, Maharaj observed signs of staging that were apparent in the repeated use of clothing and jewellery across the postcards, revealing thus several asymmetries of power.

Print Advertising in Colonial Bengal: A Visual Lexicon of Commodity Cultures

Najrin Islam Oct 18, 2021

In this curated collection of images from The City in the Archive: Calcutta’s Visual Histories, the trajectory of print advertisements from the early to late twentieth-century is explored in the language of archival documentation.

Telegrams from a Landscape Scout: A Para-Archive of Kashmir as Image

Najrin Islam Sep 01, 2021

Moonis Ahmad Shah explores a potential scenario where a scout is hired from the Kashmir Valley and sent to Switzerland―a country often equated with Kashmir in its scenic value and tourism sector, albeit without the precarity of military conflict.

Photographing the Act of Rot: On Maksud Ali Mondal’s Biotope

Najrin Islam Aug 17, 2021

Maksud Ali Mondal’s practice is characterised by the observation of fungal life and creating conditions for their transformation, with the understanding that no state in their mutation is final.

Experiential Extensions: On Somaya Abdelrahman's A Permanent Wound

Najrin Islam Aug 06, 2021

Somaya Abdelrahman’s series, A Permanent Wound, captures the stark reality of Female Genital Mutilation through frames, reflections and veils in monochrome.

Illegible Histories and Sacral Margins: The Djinns of Feroz Shah Kotla

Najrin Islam Aug 02, 2021

Taha Ahmad captures the daily happenings in the alcoves of Firoz Shah Kotla through the series, A Displaced Hope, built over years with cultivated access to the events.

Documenting Theatre: Sridhar Balasubramaniyam’s Chameleon Land

Prabhakar Duwarah Dec 21, 2022

Chameleon Land is a photo project by Sridhar Balasubramaniyam that documents Manalmagudi Theatre Land’s entire process as they prepare for and stage the production of Puzhuthimarap Paravaigal.

Resonant Shells, Animated Bodies: Natasha Malik’s Film Experiments

Pramodha Weerasekera Jun 24, 2024

Natasha Malik’s experimental film The mirror gazed inward and caught a brief glimpse of another life in an illusion of infinite, in the eye of a dream. (2022) attempts to animate her painting a swim through time, concluded (2022).

Rituals for the Dead on the Seashore: Cassie Machado’s Afterlife

Pramodha Weerasekera Apr 04, 2024

Cassie Machado's series Afterlife (2011-16) is a haunting reminder of the deaths and disappearances that occurred throughout the Sri Lankan Civil war, purely through remnant belongings as survivor objects.

Geometric Compositions: On the Photography of Ashini Nanayakkara

Pramodha Weerasekera Mar 22, 2022

While travelling in Tasmania in 2017, Sri Lankan photographer Ashini Nanayakkara encountered miles of vast and desolate architecture, inspiring her to photograph urban landscapes.

The First Madai of Netanar: Ritual, Movement and Community in Bastar

Sakhi Subramaniam Chowla Jan 20, 2026

The Madai Mela is a travelling ritual through which Adivasi communities of Bastar gather around moving village deities. The Madai in Netanar, Bijapur, becomes more than just a festival; it serves as a point of departure—a ritual beginning that sets in motion the movement of deities, people and beliefs across the region.

Diyaari Puja: A Post-Harvest Ritual of Gratitude

Sakhi Subramaniam Chowla Jan 19, 2026

Diyaari is a post-harvest festival celebrated in the Bastar region of southern Chhattisgarh. Held soon after the paddy harvest, it brings families together to thank their ancestral deities, cattle, land and forests, marking a modest yet meaningful beginning that leads into the larger Madai Mela celebrations.

The Scrapbook as Archive: Wahab Jaffer’s Documentation of Ahmed Parvez

Samira Bose Dec 02, 2021

Wahab Jaffer, a Karachi-based artist was a student of the prominent painter Ahmed Parvez in the 1970s, after which they developed a close friendship, and Jaffer a life-long fascination for Parvez’s work.

Dramatic Documentation: Photographs of KG Subramanyan’s Outdoor Murals

Samira Bose Aug 30, 2021

The photo-documentation of artist and art-educator KG Subramanyan’s outdoor murals appear to be attempts at exhibiting monumentality as well as precise details through a play of natural light and shadow.

Informal Institutional Histories: Jyoti Bhatt’s Documentation of MSU Baroda

Samira Bose Jun 16, 2021

Artist and educator Jyoti Bhatt’s personal archive contains extensive documentation from his time as a teacher at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University (MSU) of Baroda.

In Defence of Our Lands: Women’s Resistance to Mining

Sharanya Nayak Mar 20, 2026

Tijmali, one of the hills in the Gandhamardan range of Odisha’s Eastern Ghats, is revered by Adivasi and non-Adivasi communities as the sacred abode of their deity, Tij Raja. However, Vedanta and Odisha’s corporate mining lobby consider it to be merely a deposit of extractable minerals. Standing at the forefront of this conflict, the women leaders of the Ma Maati Mali Surakhya Mancha (MMMSM) have been leading the struggle to defend their land, forests, streams and sacred landscape.

Builder Raj: The Perils of Homelessness in Jai Bhim Nagar

Soniya Pondcar Jun 11, 2025

The struggle of Jai Bhim Nagar’s residents against the builder Hiranandani, who has claimed to own the land, dates back to 2007 when their basti was set ablaze. Seven years later, in 2014, the masses were subject to eviction attempts, which picked up pace again in 2023. By June 2024, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) had demolished the settlements, leaving the residents homeless overnight in the withering monsoon.

Explorations with the Human Body: Zia Qadri’s Tryst with Surrealism

Sukanya Baskar Aug 12, 2021

When the photographer Zia Qadri arrived in Los Angeles to join the Art Center School in 1940, there was another famed artist who arrived there. This was the Surrealist Man Ray.

Parijat, the Nepalese Literary Figure: Through the Interiors

Sukanya Deb Mar 27, 2023

This album looks at Parijat, a renowned literary and cultural figure, and her home, which became the centre of Kathmandu’s intellectual and cultural life in the 1960s and beyond.

Sometimes Magic Looks Like This: Narrative Threads in Eight Thirty’s Works

Veeranganakumari Solanki Sep 25, 2021

On 2 October 2020, nine women photographers gathered over a Zoom call initiated by Riti Sengupta. This included Adira Thekkuveettil, Divya Cowasji, Kirthana Devdas, Menty Jamir, Mithila Jariwala, Pavithra Ramanujam, Vinita Barretto and Zahra Amiruddin.

Conversation Piece: Consuming The Packet

Veeranganakumari Solanki Jun 21, 2021

Conversations inspired by everyday encounters with art steered two friends, Abdul Halik Azeez and Sandev Handy, to rope in their friends Venuri Perera, Imaad Majeed, Sharika Navamani, Dinelka Liyange, Cassie Machado and SP Pushpakanthan to start The Packet in 2019.

Skin of the City: Poetics of Architecture in Srinagar

Zoya Khan Oct 10, 2025

Zoya Khan's Skin of the City is a photographic excavation of Srinagar’s tactile memory—its surfaces worn by time, faith and survival. This series peels back the city's outer layers to reveal the deep entanglement between its architecture—its windows and doors—and its people, between urban form and emotional terrain.