Curated by: Gayatri Sinha
Texts: Gayatri Sinha
“As the title, ‘Middleagespread’, suggests, the exhibition visualises the spread of the ageing body politic of India. As the notion enters its 57th year, the manner in which it has been envisioned is contained in an ever-growing corpus of photographic images. The curatorial intention of this exhibition is to present essentially personalized views of the passage of time and space in Indian life, through brief photo essays. It is not an attempt to document post-independence Indian history, nor indeed to document the history of Indian photography. In choosing the black and white medium there is a desire to maintain a certain visual integrity. It is also a tribute to the medium of photography which is being increasingly redefined by digitization. The exhibition covers, in its scope, different genres from photojournalism and news-oriented images to candid shots and portraits, to constructed photographs.”
(excerpt from the catalogue essay by Gayatri Sinha)