Thursday, March 9

FOCUS launch celebrations!
Join us to celebrate the third edition of FOCUS Photography Festival Mumbai.
All events are free and open to all.

The festival opens with the inauguration of Gedney in India at JNAF
Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation
Gedney in India, co-curated by Shanay Jhaveri, Margaret Sartor and Devika Singh
Tea: 5.30pm, 6pm onwards: Inauguration, talk and walkthrough with Shanay Jhaveri and Margaret Sartor
East Wing, Second Floor Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya 159/61 Mahatma Gandhi Road, Fort

Rampart Row Gallery
The Bodyguard Lane Album
presented by BIND and
Feeling of Memory
curated by Michael Cuttsphotographs by students from Bombay International School Dharavi Art Room and Muktangan School presented by FOCUS on learning
Rampart Row, M. G. Road Kala Ghoda

Jhaveri Contemporary
Photography at Play: Bhatt, Karia and Mohamedi in Baroda, 1966-75
Curated by Diva Gujral
2, Krishna Niwas, 58A Walkeshwar Road Directions: Above Lakme Salon

Followed by exhibition previews in the Colaba, Fort and Kala Ghoda area from 6.30pm to 9pm

Art Musings
Atlas Unknown, Silvia Camporesi
curated by Maria Teresa Capacchione
1, Admiralty Building, Colaba Cross Lane Colaba

Akara Art
Masterji, curated by Tarla Patel and Jason Tilley of Photo Archive Miners
presented by FOCUS
4/5 Churchill Chambers, First Floor, 32 Mereweather Road, Colaba

Chemould Prescott Road
Access Time, including
That photo we never got by Shilpa Gupta in collaboration with Asia Art Archive
The Photograph is Proof by Anusha Yadav, The Memory Company and
Some Portraits curated by Devika Daulet-Singh, Photoink with works by Pablo Bartholomew, Richard Bartholomew, Madan Mahatta, Ram Rahman, Sadanand Menon, Ketaki Sheth, and Sooni Taraporevala
Queens Mansion, Third Floor, G.T. Marg, Fort

Kala Ghoda Cafe
Nihon: Iteration #1, Kristian Häggblom in collaboration with Farhad Bomanjee
10 Ropewalk Lane, Opposite Trishna Restaurant, Kala Ghoda

Mumbai Art Room
A Dream Deferred
curated by Zeenat Nagree, Diaz Lewis (comprising Cuban artist Alejandro Figueredo Diaz-Perera and American artist and curator Cara Megan Lewis)
Pipewala Building, Fourth Pasta Lane, Colaba

Project 88
In the City, A Library, Chirodeep Chaudhuri in collaboration with Jerry Pinto
BMP Building, Ground Floor
N. A. Sawant Marg, Colaba

Pundole’s
Bhutan Echoes, Serena Chopra
presented in collaboration with Tasveer
Hamilton House, Ground Floor, 8, J. N. Heredia Marg, Ballard Estate

Sakshi Gallery
Studio Portraits from the 22nd Century, Nandan Ghiya, presented in collaboration with Exhibit 320
06/19, Grants Building, Second Floor, Arthur Bunder Road, Colaba

Tarq
Photowallah, Waswo X Waswo
presented in collaboration with Tasveer
F35/36, Dhanraj Mahal, C. S. M. Marg, Apollo Bunder, Colaba

The Viewing Room
Intimation, Olivia Arthur and Bharat Sikka
presented by FOCUS
Elysium Mansion, Fourth Floor7, Walton Road, Colaba Causeway, Colaba