PUBLIC TALK AND PRESENTATION
SINCERITY WITH AN EDGE
Transformations in Photography: 2010 to Now
Brendan Embser
July 26
IIC Annexe, Lecture Room 2, Basement
Talk 6pm | Tea and Coffee 5:30pm | Pop up Reading Room : 3pm- 7:30pm
From the arrival of Instagram and smartphone photography to the rise of AI and the resurgence of the photobook, the last fifteen years have fundamentally reshaped the photographic landscape.
This talk reflects on these shifts through the work of photographers and lens-based artists who continue to engage with urgent realities while embracing the evolving possibilities of the medium. Together, we’ll consider how photography has transformed since 2010—and what those transformations ask of image-makers today.
SAVE THE DATE | International Symposium
IMAGE WORLDS: Hybridity
31 July & 1 August
IIC, New Delhi
This international symposium observes photography’s bicentennial. Through the conceptual pivot of hybridity, contemporary cultural producers reflect on evolving image practices, genealogies, and scripto-visual landscapes, exploring the cross-media aesthetic logics that embody Bhabha’s ‘third space’ of emergent meaning and redefine what images can be.
NEW TITLES AT THE BOOKSHOP
The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF
Wanted Beautiful Home Loving Girl
I Don’t Oil My Hair Anymore
Between Me and I
Framing Portraits, Binding Albums: Family Photographs in India
OFFSET EVENTS
SYMPOSIUM : IMAGE WORLDS: Hybridity
31 July & 1 August
IIC, New Delhi
This international symposium observes photography’s bicentennial. Through the conceptual pivot of hybridity, contemporary cultural producers reflect on evolving image practices, genealogies, and scripto-visual landscapes, exploring the cross-media aesthetic logics that embody Bhabha’s ‘third space’ of emergent meaning and redefine what images can be.
WORKSHOP : From Edit to Object
26th – 29th July ,
11am – 4pm
Offset Studio, Delhi
From Edit to Object is a four-day intensive workshop that explores editing, sequencing, narrative structure, design, production, and circulation through the photobook.
A PhotoSouthAsia workshop in collaboration with Offset Projects | Collateral Partner : Aperture
OPEN CALL : PARIS PHOTO APERTURE PHOTOBOOK AWARDS
Deadline: 4 September 2026
Apply here
The Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards are an annual celebration of the photobook’s enduring role within the narrative of photography. The awards recognize excellence in three major categories: First PhotoBook, PhotoBook of the Year, and Photography Catalog of the Year.
RESIDENCY : PhotoBook A.I.R. 2026
April – October, 2026
Offset Projects (india)
Halden Bookworks (norway)
The 2026 cohort of the PhotoBook A.I.R. program is begun! This years selected artists will spend the coming months developing an artist book while working closely with Anshika Varma as they shape their projects and experiment with the possibilities of the book as form.
Offset Projects is a publishing imprint, library and curatorial initiative. Founded in an ethos that values community building, we work with photography and book-making in South Asia to build spaces of shared inquiry.
“How can we work with the language of photography to help bring ideas and thoughts together…
to converse, research and understand the world we occupy?”
At its core, Offset views the book as a democratic and intimate space, one that resists exclusivity and invites reflection, experimentation, and exchange across borders of geography, discipline, and form.
Offset Publications
art murmur | guftgu
Editors: Anshika Varma and Mala Yamey
Design Direction : Anshika Varma
Design: Sanket Jadia
PUBLISHING SHIFTS : SOUTH ASIA
Nayantara Kakshapati, Rahaab Allana, Sharmini Pereira, Yogesh Maitreya.
THE ARTIST BOOK
Abdul Halik, Karachi LaJamia, Sohrab Hura.
NAVIGATING GLOBAL AUDIENCES
Arifur Rahman, Rashmi Devadasan, Saira Ansari, Sarasija Subramanian.
GUFTGU
Guft-gu:/ गुफ्तगू / گفتگو
Editor/Curator – Anshika Varma
Design : Anshika Varma, Ananya Khaitan, Kaashvi Kothari
Featuring : Adira Thekkuveettil, Diwas Raja K, Amarnath Praful, Arko Datto, Nandita Raman, Arun Vijai Mathavan, Nida Mehboob, Cheryl Mukherjee, Jaisingh Nageshwaran, Uma Bista
SISNU
Author – Soyeohang Rai
Edited and Curated by- Soyeohang Rai and Anshika Varma
Offset Projects 