IAF Young Collectors Program : Reading Session

11am-1pm, 8th Feb
Triveni Kala Sangam, Delhi

Presented within Triveni Kala Sangam, this 1.5-hour session brings participants into close engagement with a curated selection of photo books that interrogate photographic sequencing, narrative form, and modes of authorship. The session is led by Anshika Varma, editor and founder of Offset Projects, and opens with a brief contextual presentation that frames bookmaking as a practice of care, attentive to materiality, circulation, and the ethics of representation. It further situates independent publishing practices in South and Southeast Asia as vital to visual literacy, cultural memory, and translocal storytelling.

India Art Fair Parallel : Okhla Industrial Crawl

4-8pm, 7th Feb 2026
Offset Studio, Delhi

Join Ananya Gautam, as she takes you through a guided walk and exploration of select books from the Hong Kong PhotoBook Dummy Award ShortList.

The walk is followed by coffee and cookies in our courtyard.

Chobimela : Building Books, Building Worlds

19 January 2025
Joyeeta Foundation, Dhaka

This panel brings together Anshika Varma, Nicolas Polli, and Shahria Sharmin in conversation with Vincent Hasselbach to reflect on photobooks as artistic, political, and relational spaces.

From independent publishing and design-led experimentation to long-term documentary projects finding form on the page, the discussion explores how books are built—not only as objects, but as worlds shaped by memory, collaboration, access, and care. The panelists will share their distinct approaches to making, publishing, and sustaining photobook practices across different contexts.

Hong Kong Photobook Dummy Award Shortlist

10th Jan – 15th Feb
Offset Studio, Delhi

A celebration of the book as a vessel of photographic stories with the shortlisted titles from the 2025 Hong Kong Photobook Dummy Award.
As the photobook evolves into a vital global medium for self-expression, these shortlisted works represent the very best in creative experimentation. From innovative tactile storytelling to bold visual leaps, these “dummies” offer a rare, hands-on look at how stories are being reshaped for a global audience.