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Agenda • Exhibitions to See

Day Jobs • Susan Meiselas’s early years teaching in the American South prepared her for collaborations abroad.

Spotlight • Inspired by a hidden history, Donavon Smallwood envisions Black tranquility in Central Park.

Curriculum

Looking Out/Looking In Delhi • The dynamic images, social landscapes, and shared solidarities of a restless city.

Arundhati Roy The City as a Novel

O. P. Sharma • Light Work

The Photobook as Public Space

The Printed World • The Illustrated Weekly of India offered readers a cosmopolitan vision of life in South Asia.

Direct Action • In the 1980s, Sheba Chhachhi was galvanized by a national feminist movement in India. Her staged portraits of fellow activists testify to the power of solidarity.

Visible Cities • In their imaginative recent films, Anamika Haksar and Priya Sen envision the many lives and contradictions of Delhi.

The Lives of Buildings • As modern architecture and planning schemes flourished in India, photographers mapped a new reality.

Uzma Mohsin • Songkeepers

Shahidul Alam On Freedom and Resistance

Ishan Tankha • A Peal of Spring Thunder

Aditi Jain • The Glow in the Mirror

We Were There • Sunil Gupta has spent his career photographing queer subjects in India—and inspired a new generation to insist on an inclusive politics of belonging.

Collective Shift Another South Asia

Srinivas Kuruganti • American Diary

Prarthna Singh • One Hundred Days of Resistance

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