Event Details

The NCPA presents The Lives We Dream in Passing, Kalpesh Lathigra’s first solo exhibition in India, curated by Veeranganakumari Solanki.

Moving between documentary impulse and art practice, Lathigra’s work treats both staged and found images as democratic. Across Memoire Temporelle, The Indian Photo Studio, and Junagadh, photographs become sites where migration, identity, and inheritance are examined—never resolved, but continually re-imagined.

Mumbai’s streets, studio archives from Gujarat, and hotel rooms in Junagadh form the visual language of an artist negotiating distance: between India and the West, between history and the present, between what is seen and what is remembered.

Curated with an emphasis on narration and image practice, the exhibition is accompanied by the below:

🖼️ Artist walkthrough | With Kalpesh Lathigra
🗓️ Feb 12
⏰ 5:00 pm

👥 Panel Discussion | Photographing through Friendship: How long-term artistic exchanges shapes new ways of seeing | Kalpesh Lathigra, Prarthna Singh, Veeranganakumari Solanki
🗓️ Feb 13
⏰ 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm

🖼️ Artist walkthrough | With Kalpesh Lathigra
🗓️ Feb 14
⏰ 4:30 pm

🎤 Talk | Why Photobooks? | Kaamna Patel & Kalpesh Lathigra
🗓️ Feb 14
⏰ 5:30 pm

📝 Portfolio Reviews | Kalpesh Lathigra & Veeranganakumari Solanki
🗓️ Feb 18 & 19 (Please mail us at photography@ncpamumbai.com for the application link)