This exhibition of over 150 photographs has been previously exhibited in seven venues, including Delhi, Mumbai, Bhopal, Guwahati and Kolkata. They allow us a rare glimpse into the workings of a studio in the early years of photography in India, how photographers operated behind the camera and the many tedious trials before an image was satisfactorily captured on glass. Difficulties in controlling light, exposure times, dust, errant chemicals, inhospitable terrains and innumerable vagaries of protocol while photographing people in Indian palaces, forts, studios, mountains, ruins, etc, all seem to be challenges that Deen Dayal managed to surmount
