摄影于1839年传入印度，最初是英国人用以记录当地民众生活、建筑以及风景。并且在当时摄影成为了一种最为直接的、真实的记录印度特殊殖民经历的媒介。
近日，在英国的科学博物馆（Science Museum）举办了一场名为《照亮印度：摄影 1857 -2017》的展览。此次展览关注从19世纪五十年代以来，有着海外知识背景的一批印度摄影家作品，这些摄影家之中，很多曾经被忽视。展览围绕着两个关键词展开。第一个关键词为1857年之前的印度摄影，第二阶段为1947年的印度。这对于印度来说是一个在摄影技术、艺术方面都蓬勃发展的年代。
Image 11 from the Sweet Life series
Photograph: Sohrab Hura
A wedding portrait of an Indian couple, c 1920-40
Photograph: Alkazi Foundation for the Arts
Young Warriors, Sitamarhi, Uttar Pradesh, India, 2015. From the series A Myth of Two Souls
Photograph: Vasantha Yogananthan
Boy playing girl, Janakpur, Nepal, 2016, handpainted by Jaykumar Shankar. From the series a Myth of Two Souls
Photograph: Vasantha Yogananthan
Shravanabelagola, Karnataka, India, 1981
Photograph: Mitch Epstein/Courtesy of Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln
The Promise, Janakpur, Nepal, 2016. From the series a Myth of Two Souls
Photograph: Vasantha Yogananthan
Unidentified woman of the Zenana, c1870
Photograph: Trustees, Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum, City Palace, Jaipur
Lonavla, Meghraj Cabaret, Bombay, India, 1984
Photograph: Mitch Epstein/Courtesy of Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln
Interior of the Bada Imambada after the Indian mutiny of 1857, taken in 1858
Photograph: Felice Beato/Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Self-portrait with studio table, c1870
Photograph: Trustees, Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum, City Palace, Jaipur
Rama combing his hair, Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, India, 2015. From the series A Myth of Two Souls
Photograph: Vasantha Yogananthan
Jaipur, Rajasthan, India 1985
Photograph: Mitch Epstein/Courtesy of Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln
Maharaja Venkat Raman Singh of Rewa (1876-1918), 1899s
Photograph: Copy/Alkazi Foundation for the Arts
Nehru announces Gandhi’s assassination to a crying crowd at Birla House, Delhi, 30 January 1948
Photograph: Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum
