WHERE LIGHT FALLS | BLACK & WHITE STREET PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP
IN COLLABORATION WITH KIRAN NADER MUSEUM OF ARTS, NEW DELHI
10 – 12 April 2026 · KNMA Museum, Saket, New Delhi.
Where Light Falls was a three-day black and white photography workshop held at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi, in collaboration with curators Neha Tickoo and Shruti Sarkar.
The workshop was built on a single premise: black and white is not a filter. It is a decision. Participants were invited to slow down — to stop taking photographs and start making them.
The three days moved from theory to practice to display.
Day one was an online session covering the language of B&W — how to read a scene in tones, how light structures an image, and how composition becomes louder when colour disappears.
Day two was a mentored outdoor walk at Jama Masjid, beginning at dawn.
Day three brought participants back to KNMA for an editing and group review session.
The workshop closed with a pop-up exhibition at KNMA from 14–20 April 2026.
By the end, participants had learned to read a scene in tones, use light with intention, compose with a reason, and edit with restraint. The camera, as the workshop insisted, doesn't make the image. The eye does. The mind does.
THE WORKSHOP Where Light Falls is a three-day street and documentary photography workshop built around black and white — not as a filter, but as a way of seeing. Stripped of colour, the image reveals what it is made of: light, shadow, texture, geometry, and human presence.
The workshop moves through three connected stages — understanding, making, and presenting — and ends with a real exhibition of participants' work, printed and mounted at KNMA.
WHY BLACK & WHITE
Colour tells you what something looks like. Black and white tells you what it feels like. In monochrome, tonal contrast, texture, and geometry move to the foreground — they become the image, not its background. From Cartier-Bresson to Raghu Rai, the greatest street photographers have returned to monochrome as a precise visual language: one that intensifies mood and lets the essential moment breathe.
THE THREE DAYS
Day 1 — Seeing in Black & White
Friday, 10 April 2026 · 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM · KNMA / Online
An evening theory session to shift how you look before you pick up the camera. Covers the visual grammar of monochrome — light, shadow, tonal range, contrast; composition strategies unique to B&W (geometry, silhouettes, leading lines, shadow as form); how to read a scene for narrative moments; an overview of street and documentary practice; and visual exercises to train the monochromatic eye. Closes with open Q&A.
Day 2 — The Street
Saturday, 11 April 2026 · 7:00 AM – 11:00 AM · Jama Masjid, Old Delhi
An immersive photowalk at one of Delhi's great photographic locations — chosen for its light, texture, architecture, and the ceaseless rhythm of daily life. Komal provides one-on-one guidance on seeing in monochrome, real-time framing and composition feedback, exposure technique for B&W, and how to anticipate scenes before they happen. Short group review breaks are built into the walk.
Assignment: Before the next morning, shortlist a maximum of 7 images for group review.
Day 3 — Editing, Curation & Exhibition
Sunday, 12 April 2026 · Morning – Evening · KNMA
Morning — Image Review & Editing Session
Each participant presents final images for reviews. Komal reviews and further shortlists 2-3 images per participant for the exhibition: discussing what is working, what tonal adjustments will strengthen it, and what the body of work begins to say. Hands-on editing for tonality, contrast, and mood.
Afternoon — Selection, print, curate the exhibition with KNMA
Working alongside KNMA's curatorial team to take the work off the screen and onto the wall — sequencing, printing, mounting, and exhibiting participants' photographs in the museum. For most participants, this will be the first time their work appears on the walls of KNMA, this is the workshop’s deepest offering.
WHO THIS WORKSHOP IS FOR Open to all levels — first-time street shooters and experienced photographers alike. No prior B&W experience required. You need only be curious about what remains when colour is removed.
Bring: A digital camera and a laptop with basic editing software.