A Painter with a Camera

A Painter with a Camera

Artists: Jyoti Bhatt
Curated By: Khushboo Jain

If a camera becomes more than a recorder of reality, it becomes a brush that paints in light and shadow. A Painter with a Camera brings together a focused selection of photographic works that foreground photography as sustained artistic experimentation rather than mere documentation. The exhibition invites viewers to see the photographic surface as a space of creation, layering, alteration, and visual inquiry.

Jyoti Bhatt’s practice foregrounds experimental analogue processes developed between the 1960s and 1980s, including multiple exposures, collage, masking and hand painting. His works draw from his background as a painter and reveal a sustained engagement with material and perception in photographic form.

The exhibition offers a rare opportunity to experience Bhatt’s innovative approach to photography long before digital manipulation became standard, emphasizing process, material intelligence and a challenge to conventional visual language.