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Touching Light
August 23, 2025 @ 11:00 am / September 30, 2025 @ 7:00 pm IST
As photography approaches its bicentennial milestone in 2027, Museo Camera announces TOUCHING LIGHT: A Prelude to the Bicentennial of Photography (1827–2027), an exhibition curated by Aditya Arya that pays tribute to the practitioners and practice of analog photography. Opening on 23 August 2024, the exhibition will run until 29 September 2024.
TOUCHING LIGHT brings together rare historical photographs alongside works by 28 contemporary Indian photographers. Highlights include:
– Carte de Visite from Bourne & Shepherd Studio (1860s)
– Albumen prints from the ‘People of India’ series (1850s–1860s)
– ‘Beauties of Lucknow’ series attributed to Darogah Abbas Ali (1874)
These archival treasures from Museo Camera / India Photo Archive are presented alongside analog silver prints, chemigrams, and diapositives by leading practitioners including Aditya Arya, Akash Das, Avinash Aggarwal, Avinash Pasricha, Bandeep Singh, Dinesh Khanna, Fawzan Hussain, Harbans Mody, Hardev Singh, Jayant Shaw, Kulwant Roy, Mahesh Bhatt, Mala Mukerjee, Neeraj Priyadarshi, the NK Dasappa Archive, Parthiv Shah, Prabir Purkayastha, Pradeep Chandra, Pradeep Dasgupta, Prashant Panjiar, Ram Rahman, Rohit Chawla, Saibal Das, Serena Chopra, Sondeep Shankar, Sumiko Nanda, the Thiagrajan Archive, and T. Narayan.
Through historical archives and contemporary practices, TOUCHING LIGHT celebrates photography not only as image but as object– fragile, imperfect, and profoundly human. It invites audiences to engage with the materiality of memory, honoring the legacy of those who preserved and shaped India’s photographic heritage.
