A writer, art critic, curator, painter and poet, is how Bartholomew is remembered. Bartholomew’s love for literature and art remained lifelong companions and he became one of the finest voices in art criticism in India. He was one of the first art critics to start a serious dialogue with the painters of his time. He created a community with them and engendered a sense of direction at a time when the public was not fully receptive to the bold artistic exploration of India’s Progressive Art Movement. His photographs however, remained a more private introspection of life around him and were rarely exhibited. Twenty-four years afte...

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In the mid-1990s Max Kandhola embarked upon a personal odyssey to map his family heritage. Illustration of Life, the first part of the trilogy that began in 1996, is a poignant and painful document of his father’s struggle with cancer that led to his death. In our unpredictable world there is one certainty upon which we can always rely; yet death, when it comes, is never easy. In this extraordinary body of work, Kandhola photographed his father in the final stages of a terminal illness. His intensely personal and honest images confront us with the intimate and often painful reality of death.Following...

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Photoink is delighted to end 2009 with India by Snowdon, an exhibition of portraits and book release by the legendary British photographer, Lord Snowdon. On invitation and support from The Nand and Jeet Khemka Foundation, Lord Snowdon travelled across India between 2004 and 2005 making portraits of prominent professional Indians. India by Snowdon was a project commissioned to Photoink in 2004.This exhibition and book of portraits, a selection of prominent professional Indians, represents some of the men and women who have made an impact on the life and times of an ancient civilization but young nation.Ranging from politicians to filmmakers...

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This exhibition marks the first occasion for the internationally renowned British photographer, Martin Parr’s works to be seen in India. Parr is amongst the most influential photographers of our age, known for his innovative imagery and oblique approach to social documentary. This exhibition brings together photographs made both in Britain and India, examining his keen observations of people and particular aspects of culture.

Parr’s curiosity about the world brought a lively irreverence in the world of photography from which it is still recovering. Imbued with humour, irony and satire, Parr’s photographs m...

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