Photography in the Margins: The Material History of an Indian Studio

Christopher Pinney exhibited photos from the archive of Studio Suhag during the Tbilisi Photo Festival 2017.

Studio Suhag presents a slice of 1970s and 80s history from central India. The images, by Suresh Punjabi, are testimony to an era of hands-on studio photography when physical materials combined with the photographer’s ingenuity to stage and record astonishing and poignant human dramas. The images displayed were printed from negatives salvaged after a recent flood destroyed the major part of Studio Suhag’s vast archive of small-town life.