Art as a Storyteller
Join our Director, Kamini Sawhney, on an exploration of some highlights from...
The earliest photo studios in India primarily served colonial interests or catered to the desires of the royal and the wealthy. Over time however, the experience of going to a studio was to become more accessible, even commonplace. And the studio became a space that catered to a range of people with a range of reasons for taking photographs. Today, the photo studio is a dying institution with limited applications. Many of its stories and those of the people it documented remain alive only in rarely preserved studio archives, museums and personal collections.
To celebrate World Photography Day, MAP is looking at the history of studio photography in India through its collection. Join Prachi Gupta, an archivist at MAP, who explores the photo studio as an entry point into picturing the transition of image-making and dissemination in a rapidly modernising India.
Thomas P. Campbell in conversation with Kamini Sawhney.
A co-creative workshop at the intersection of art and media literacy.
Artists Rajyashri Goody and Sri Vamsi Matta in conversation.
An evening of poetry and conversations around the diverse and fluid nature of identities.
Annette Bhagwati in conversation with Kamini Sawhney.
Art Making and Taking in the Struggle for Western India, 1760-1910.
Illuminating the impact of the Partition on artists and art practices in India and Pakistan.
A conversation between author Aanchal Malhotra and Priyanka Seshadri exploring the legacy of Partition.
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