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Lala Deen Dayal
by Dr Sushma Griffin
Although considered one of the most influential Indian photographers in the global history of nineteenth-century photography, Lala Deen Dayal’s portraiture practice is surprisingly underexamined, receiving only cursory acknowledgment and little sustained attention.


Wilson and Co.
by Gael Newton AM
It is highly unlikely that the founders and operators of Wilson Studios, operational in Bombay from c. 1920–40, looked back to William Johnson’s clever Bombay montages of the 1850s, but their distinctive portraits share the same fusion of the real and the fantastical.

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