GURUGRAM: A photography exhibition bringing together Kushal Ray's work on a Kolkata household, everyday Calcutta and families in Ladakh opened at Museo Camera in Sector 28 on Thursday, November 5, 2026. The show, presented with Emami Art, runs until November 22 and gives Gurugram visitors access to three projects built through repeated visits over many years.

The venue is on Shri Ganesh Mandir Marg in DLF Phase IV. Museo Camera lists the exhibition as free to enter, with visitors able to drop in. Its stated hours are 11 am to 7 pm IST, with the museum closed on Mondays. The exhibition is titled A Few Things To See Along the Way: Kushal Ray's Calcutta, Ladakh, and Home.

Three projects, three different settings

The fullest household sequence is Intimacies, made between 1998 and 2009. According to the organiser's exhibition account, all 44 prints in the exhibition set are being shown together. The photographs grew from Ray's relationship with a family he already knew, rather than from a brief assignment or a single arranged sitting.

When he began photographing the household in 1998, ten people from four generations lived in a twelve room house that was then about ninety years old. Ray set up a temporary studio in Manju's room and continued working there for more than a decade. The organiser puts the resulting archive at roughly 8,000 photographs. Those figures describe the larger project, not the number of pictures on the gallery walls.

The scenes range across study, work, caregiving and family relationships. The organiser describes photographs of Manju travelling to college and marking degree examination answer scripts at home, alongside a picture of her mother being fed by a great granddaughter. Ray also appears within the work. In one photograph, his hand rests on Manju's, making his own place in the household part of the record.

Intimacies became a book in 2012, published by Niyogi Books with an essay by Kunal Basu. The organiser records that Dayanita Singh nominated it for a photobook award at Le Bal in Paris that year. A later edition was published by Mandas Publications. The Gurugram presentation lets visitors see the complete exhibition set as a connected account of one home.

Ladakh: A Syncretic Living covers 1987 to 2017. Ray first visited the region in 1987 and returned for thirty years, staying with families and photographing successive generations. His first solo exhibition, in Mumbai in 1998, drew on this work. The National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi acquired one photograph from that exhibition, according to Emami Art.

Among the people in the series is Tashi Namgail, who ran a small guest house in Leh and used donkeys to carry drinking water. Ray photographed him with the animals in 1994. That year he also photographed Stanzin Zangmo with her granddaughter Spalzin. Later photographs follow the family into another generation and another home. Three large prints in this section depict the landscape; other pictures concentrate on the people living there.

Ray was born in Calcutta in 1960 and trained as a painter. The organiser traces his move into full time photography to 1991, after earlier work as a sports reporter and making photographic essays on assignments.

A city archive returns to view

The third selection records Calcutta between 1990 and 1993. It includes street and riverside life, with locations such as Lake Market and Chitpur Road appearing in the organiser's account. Ray photographed a rickshaw puller in flooded streets in 1991 and tram workers during a tea break. In April 1992, he went to Nandan with his camera on the morning after filmmaker Satyajit Ray's death.

Much of this city work remained unprinted for more than thirty years. Emami Art showed a first selection from the archive in Kolkata earlier in 2026. The photographs now included in Gurugram form a selection from that larger body of work. The organiser's exhibition overview explains the three projects and their histories.

Dates, hours and entry in Sector 28

  • Exhibition dates: November 5 to November 22, 2026.
  • Venue: Museo Camera, Shri Ganesh Mandir Marg, DLF Phase IV, Sector 28, Gurugram.
  • Visiting hours: 11 am to 7 pm IST; closed on Mondays.
  • Exhibition entry: free, with drop in visits listed by the venue.

Visitors should distinguish the exhibition listing from the museum's general admission information. The official exhibition page says this show is free. The museum separately lists permanent collection tickets on its home page. Its first visit background guide explains the wider venue, while earlier coverage of the Seamus Murphy exhibition and recent book and film programme provides context on the Sector 28 cultural space.