A Painter with a Camera: Jyoti Bhatt

A Painter with a Camera: Jyoti Bhatt brings together a focused selection of photographic works by Jyoti Bhatt that foreground an essential dimension of his practice: photography as a site of sustained experimentation rather than mere documentation. Produced over several decades, the black-and-white works on view encompass photographs where the image is fractured through use of mirrors and lenses alongside images transformed through multiple exposures, collage, hand painting and darkroom interventions.

Bhatt’s approach to photography is shaped by a painter’s sensibility — treating the image as a surface to be worked, revised and returned to over time. Long before digital manipulation became commonplace, he engaged the medium through analogue processes that emphasise duration, labour and material intelligence. Presented as original silver gelatin prints, these works allow viewers to encounter the photographs as they were first conceived, underscoring Bhatt’s commitment to process and positioning his photographic practice within a broader inquiry into time, repetition and making.