Touching Light: A Prelude to the Bicentennial of Photography (1827–2027) is a tribute to the art, craft, and soul of analogue photography.

This exhibition brings together 19th-century treasures — Carte de Visite from Bourne & Shepherd, the People of India series, the Beauties of Lucknow — alongside silver prints, chemigrams, and slides by 28 contemporary Indian photographers. Each frame carries its own unique grain, light leaks, and colour shifts — the fingerprints of film.

Touching Light invites you to step into the world where images slowly emerge in the glow of the darkroom, where the tactile connection between photographer, camera, and subject transforms moments into memory.

Featuring:

Bourne and Shepherd Studio 1860s
Beauties of Lucknow 1870s
Egg Albumen Prints 1850s
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
NK Dasappa Archive
Parthiv Shah
Prabir Purkakyastha
Pradeep Chandra
Pradeep Dasgupta
Prashant Panjiar
Ram Rahman
Rohit Chawla
Saibal Das
Serena Chopra
Sondeep Shankar
Sumiko Nanda
Thiagrajan Archive
T Narayan

Venue: Museo Camera, Gurugram
Inauguration: 22 Aug, 6 PM onwards
Exhibition Dates: 23 Aug – 29 Sept 2025