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Unframed explores some of the nuanced facets of lens-based media with a focus on South Asia, specifically charting the development of photography in the region from the eighteenth century to the present. Thirty-one texts, organised into five separate yet related sections, analyse the general history and specific meta-histories of the medium in our region through overlapping trajectories, reflecting the depth of image practises in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Myanmar. This collection/reader analyses emerging themes, testimonies, and socio-cultural transformations through important dialogues about the development, implementation, and subsequent dissemination of lens-based work, drawing on the larger arc of South Asian visual cultures. The fundamental analyses updated for this volume, along with newly commissioned essays, interviews with practitioners/curators, and a collection of essays, collectively explore the nuances of the relationships between memory and space, ideas of self, the fuzziness of geographic taxonomies, the dictates of the gaze, the rupture of identity, various dimensions of mirroring/othering, and the shaky politics of etching moments in time.
