Ricoh GR Exhibition

Bringing together the works of Sam Mohan, Zeeshan Chowdhury, Ankur Acharya and Amit Sharma, this exhibition explores the relationship between observation, memory, identity and the unseen. Through four distinct photographic practices, the artists look beyond the surface of everyday life to examine our connections with places, people and the world around us. Each body of work offers a personal perspective on seeing and understanding, inviting viewers to slow down, look closer and discover the stories, questions and mysteries that lie within the frame.

Venue - State Art Gallery, Hyderabad

Date - 26 Nov 2026 - 03 Jan 2027 / 11 AM - 6 PM

Where the dust settles / Sam Mohan

Dust settles on everything here. Nothing is exempt. After a while, neither do I.

These photographs are observations, not arguments. I live here. This is what is here.

The dust becomes both material and metaphor, but I am less interested in symbolism than in what it reveals. My images sits somewhere between observation and self-observation. I am looking at a place, but I am also becoming implicated in its rhythms of accumulation, erosion, concealment and disappearance.

Bio

Sam Mohan is a contemporary artist and photographer whose practice spans more than two and a half decades. Trained in Contemporary Art Photography and Digital Imaging at the University of Sunderland, UK, he works with photography as a contemporary art medium to examine how we experience and construct our relationship with the world around us.

His practice is rooted in critical inquiry rather than straightforward documentation. He explores ideas of nature and urbanisation, development, memory, territory, identity, belief and mortality, examining the tensions between the natural and the constructed, the visible and the unseen. Landscape, architecture, objects and absence become visual and conceptual elements through which larger social, ecological and political conditions are considered.

His extensive experience across commercial photography, filmmaking and documentary practice, together with travels across India, Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, has shaped a broad understanding of image-making and representation. A period of withdrawal to Ladakh following the pandemic marked a significant shift, allowing him to reconsider the role of the camera and move towards a more contemplative and critically engaged artistic practice.

Rather than seeking to describe reality, Sam uses photography to question it. His images are often deliberately open-ended, allowing ambiguity, symbolism and personal interpretation to coexist. At the centre of his practice is an ongoing investigation into how places hold memory, how systems leave traces on landscapes and people and how images can make the unseen felt.

Inner Horizons / Zeeshan CHOWDHURY

Inner Horizons is an ongoing project that began as an attempt to understand my relationship with Bangalore, a city I have lived in for over two decades. I wanted to question what connects me to this place and what it means to call a city home after spending so much of my life in it.

Over time, however, the project became less about the city and more about myself. The people, streets, and everyday moments I photographed began to reflect my own feelings of distance, solitude, and belonging.

What started as a way of looking at the city slowly became a more personal journey - an attempt to understand my own inner landscape and my place within the world around me.

Bio

Zeeshan Chowdhury is a photographer based in Bangalore, India. His work explores people, places, and everyday life, with a focus on mood, emotion, and the quiet moments that often go unnoticed. Photography, for him, is a way of observing the world while also trying to understand his own place within it.

All secrets unknown / Ankur Acharya

Our world is filled with secrets that remain beyond our knowing. Beneath the surface of what we see, life unfolds through histories, forces and meanings that may never fully reveal themselves.

Every moment holds the possibility of something that exists beyond our capacity to comprehend. This body of work explores the space between what is revealed and what remains unknown, recognising that the visible world is never the entirety of what exists.

It is an inquiry into the quiet mysteries of existence, and into the limits of our attempts to make sense of it. I prefer to leave it unresolved.

Bio

Ankur Acharya is a photographer based in Pune, interested in observing the subtle strangeness of ordinary life. His practice is guided by selfreflection and observing moments that might otherwise pass unnoticed.

Rather than working within a fixed visual vocabulary, he allows his photography to evolve through continued inquisitiveness about himself and world around. His work seeks moments that are rather unresolved thereby inviting the viewer to look beyond the photograph and consider what might lie within.

The Other Body / Amit Sharma

Photography did not begin as art. It began as measurement. The gait of a horse, the profile of a water tower, a body repeated until it could be compared. This work borrows that method and puts a question to the medium that the medium has never answered.

Two people stretch in a park. Four photographs, from a position that keeps shifting. They trade places, and the last frame returns to the first. Nothing was directed. The bare earth underfoot keeps the count of mornings, and the routine does the staging. What looks arranged is habit. What looks like habit is being watched.

They never saw me. I was in the park the way weather is in the park, and the pictures are made from that condition. Faces are lowered or turned away. Nobody looks back. In each frame one body acts, one waits, and a third goes uncounted.

The grid has no last image. The sequence closes and begins again, and the viewer is left standing where I stood

Bio

Amit Sharma is a Bangalore-based photographer with nearly three decades of professional experience. After a career in editorial and advertising photography for international publications and global brands, he stepped away from commissioned work in 2021 to pursue his personal practice and research into the medium.

His work questions the authority of the photographic image and the assumptions through which we understand what we see. Working with fragments, altered surfaces and visual ambiguity, Sharma constructs introspective narratives that resist resolution. Rather than illustrating ideas or prescribing meaning, his images leave room for uncertainty, allowing personal associations and lived experience to shape the viewer’s encounter with the work.

Sharma is the GR Master and Chief Curator for Ricoh GR India, a former mentor with Leica Akademie India, and co-founder of Five60 Collective in Bangalore. He teaches photography and conducts long-term mentorship programmes internationally. In 2026, he released Sanctum, his first photobook.