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We live with and through images. For nearly two centuries, they’ve shaped our relationship to truth, belief, evidence, and each other — and we have, mostly, trusted them. This eight-part online lecture series explores how that trust was built, how it operates, and what it means to inhabit a world where it is coming undone. Moving from 19th–century colonial archives to contemporary image cultures, it traces photography’s evolving role as an instrument of power, a container of memory, a medium of community, and — increasingly — a site of suspicion.

Learn about the stylistic movements, pioneering institutions and individuals who have influenced the trajectory of Indian art since the late-19th century. Authored by curator and art historian Dr Beth Citron, this course follows major developments in artistic practices, education and collaborations — unfolding alongside landmark shifts in the subcontinent’s history, and moving beyond conventional frameworks.