How did French as well as Indian photographers perceive India over two & a half centuries of its history? In this exhibition, different visions of French as well as Indian artists who travelled or lived in India from the mid-19th century to the 1970s will be showcased through the medium of photography.
Among all these intrepid travellers, writers, journalists, photographers and artists, discover the works of notable French photographers such as Louis Rousselet (who came to India in the mid-nineteenth-century), Marc Riboud (a celebrated French photojournalist who travelled all around Asia in the 50s), and many other works of modern European Masters such as Denis Brihat, Paul Almasy, Michel Séméniako, who took exploratory trips to India from the 1950s onwards until the 1970s like the French-born American photographer Bernard Pierre Wolff.
Photography cannot change the world, but it can show the world, especially when it changes.
- Marc Riboud, French photographer (1923-2016)
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‘By researching archives in France as well as India, this project hopes to think about geography, identity and ‘place-making’ as part of a larger cultural exchange wherein we may question belonging, origins and the interdependence between people from across the world’
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Title Image: Bernard Pierre Wolff, Chiites, Festival du Muharram, Lucknow, Inde, 1975 © Collection Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris