Two beautiful people from the city of Delhi, ages apart come together to showcase the best of smartphone photography. 26-year-old Sanya Ahuja debuted with the Eminent Artist Sanjay Bhattacharyya at the exhibition, Our World Through Four Eyes: Distortions, Reflections, Shadows, Textures (Titled by Indian Historian & Hotelier Aman Nath), a collection of Photographs showcased the range and depth both these artists were known for. This eclectic curation of photographs taken masterfully on modern day smartphones depicted a beautiful juxtaposition between abstract photography and atmospheric human portraits, offering visitors a unique perspective on visual artwork that brought together a surreal, impressionist interplay of subject and its surroundings with the honest, intuitive sensibilities of capturing raw emotions in everyday life.
The preview witnessed the guests including Shrimati Maneka Gandhi, Aman Nath, Akash Das, Shreela Debi, The Singh Twins, Rennie Joyy, Rachna Agarwal, Jatin das and many more graced the exhibition.
The exhibition is scheduled from 27th till 31st October 2025 at the Visual Arts gallery in India Habitat Centre on Lodhi Road, Delhi. The visitors got a chance to meet the artists and discuss their creative process at the opening day reception.
“Sanjay’s photographic style treats composition not as mere framing but as a transformative wand, bending everyday subjects into haunting netherworlds through seemingly serendipitous arrangements that define a new visual legion; his phone images pulse with silent elegiac tones—crumbling iron doors, chandeliers, veiled windows—evoking a twentieth-century ethos while his heavy-grain indoor shots and marginalized subjects carve a poetry freed from polite allusion” says Uma Nair, the curator of this event, underlining the nuanced work through the lens of art aficionado.
In a stunning contrast, “there’s a palpable intensity in the way Sanya looks at urban environments. Her photographs show us not only the intriguing and overlooked forms she finds within them but also suggest how the passage of time and human use impact their appearance. When viewing these images, we discover compelling ideas. Sometimes we encounter a wall, a physical boundary that rigidly separates public and private spaces,” adds Uma Nair, elucidating Sanya Ahuja’s work.
