Bringing together works by 19 photographers and artists, this exhibition explored the diversity of contemporary Indian photography through documentary images, portraiture, staged performance, and experimental practices. The works addressed gender, class, cultural identity, diaspora, and the complexities of a society undergoing rapid change.

The project reflected the Gaurs’ sustained engagement with photography, which grew from their involvement in the Newark Museum’s 2007 exhibition India: Public Places, Private Spaces. Presented at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2015 and at the Gaur Collection’s home gallery, Looking In | Looking Out was accompanied by an illustrated catalog. Most of the exhibited works were subsequently gifted to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art.