photography

Magical Reality

Avantika Bhuyan

Spiti’s bare landscape pulls you in as much does the warmth of the people from the valley, believes photographer Idris Ahmed.

Slumdog Photographer

Sohini Chattopadhyay

His own story is astonishing, but Vicky Roy’s photos of Ground Zero would stand out even without his life graph.

Still Moving Histories

Venkata Vemuri

An exhibition in London looks at 150 years of photography in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

The King and Eye

Avantika Bhuyan

For an exhibition on Bhutan, the current king himself, an avid photographer, gives us an insider’s view of his kingdom and its people.

Famous People, Infamous Shots

Kabeer Sharma

India has the honour of being the subject of Lord Snowdon’s latest exhibition. But go back in time if you want to see his finest work yet.

Still Moving Image

Rahul Jayaram

Investment banker-turned-photographer Siddhartha Tawadey sees life through a Buddhist lens, where all is movement, all is transience

The World in his Sights

arindam

From the North Pole to Africa, Sumantra Banerjee, camera hanging from his shoulders, goes in search of the remote and rugged.

By an uncanny coincidence, both Prabuddha Dasgupta and his former protégé Bharat Sikka focused their cameras on Goa for their latest photo exhibitions. But while Dasgupta discovers a community teetering in cultural limbo, Sikka finds a very rooted place.