The Passerby

Exhibition: 22 Apr 2022 – 31 Jul 2022

The Passerby
© RAGHU RAI, Two men, Old Delhi, 1970

PHOTOINK is very pleased to present The Passerby, an exhibition of black and white street photography from the archives of Ketaki Sheth, Pablo Bartholomew, Raghu Rai and Sooni Taraporevala.
Spanning the 1970s-2000, these photographs offer a view of the golden period of street photography in India, when photographers roamed the streets, endlessly, to take photographs. It was a time when permission and consent were not negotiated in writing and the photographer could photograph with tacit understanding from passers-by. Photographing the street has increasingly become a complex and contested space today, surveillance and privacy issues notwithstanding. Everyone with a mobile phone is now a street photographer.

Artists

Works

  • © Ketaki Sheth, Jain nuns, Walkeshwar Road, Bombay, 1989
  • © Sooni Taraporevala, Women of Kamathipura, Bombay, 1987
  • © PABLO BARTHOLOMEW, Workers carrying leather, Tangra, Calcutta, c.1978
  • © Raghu Rai , Siesta for taxi drivers, Kolkata, 1990 , Silver gelatin print with selenium toning , 20 × 24 in (50.8 × 60.9 cm) , Ed of 10