Two beautiful people from the city of Delhi, ages apart come together to showcase the best of smartphone photography. 26-year-old Sanya Ahuja debuted with the Eminent Artist Sanjay Bhattacharyya at the exhibition, Our World Through Four Eyes: Distortions, Reflections, Shadows, Textures (Titled by Indian Historian & Hotelier Aman Nath), a collection of Photographs showcased the range and depth both these artists were known for. This eclectic curation of photographs taken masterfully on modern day smartphones depicted a beautiful juxtaposition between abstract photography and atmospheric human portraits, offering visitors a unique perspective on visual artwork that brought together a surreal, impressionist interplay of subject and its surroundings with the honest, intuitive sensibilities of capturing raw emotions in everyday life.
The preview witnessed the guests including Shrimati Maneka Gandhi, Aman Nath, Akash Das, Shreela Debi, The Singh Twins, Rennie Joyy, Rachna Agarwal, Jatin das and many more graced the exhibition.
The exhibition is scheduled from 27th till 31st October 2025 at the Visual Arts gallery in India Habitat Centre on Lodhi Road, Delhi. The visitors got a chance to meet the artists and discuss their creative process at the opening day reception.
“Sanjay’s photographic style treats composition not as mere framing but as a transformative wand, bending everyday subjects into haunting netherworlds through seemingly serendipitous arrangements that define a new visual legion; his phone images pulse with silent elegiac tones—crumbling iron doors, chandeliers, veiled windows—evoking a twentieth-century ethos while his heavy-grain indoor shots and marginalized subjects carve a poetry freed from polite allusion” says Uma Nair, the curator of this event, underlining the nuanced work through the lens of art aficionado.
In a stunning contrast, “there’s a palpable intensity in the way Sanya looks at urban environments. Her photographs show us not only the intriguing and overlooked forms she finds within them but also suggest how the passage of time and human use impact their appearance. When viewing these images, we discover compelling ideas. Sometimes we encounter a wall, a physical boundary that rigidly separates public and private spaces,” adds Uma Nair, elucidating Sanya Ahuja’s work.
About the Artists
Sanjay Bhattacharyya, known for his virtuosity in transforming abstract subjects into brilliant artworks for more than 3 decades, successfully merges his vision with modern day lens to capture his love for light and colours with the textures and silhouettes that define his love for the wholesome composition, condensed artfully in a single photograph. Shot in his eerily quiet studio in bustling Rajinder Nagar, Delhi, his series of photographs he says are “an obsession in my life for fragments that reveal and hide the truth.”
Sanya Ahuja, a contemporary visual artist, graduated from Amity School of Fine Arts in 2023, is driven by a deep passion for art, which she describes as the force that keeps her life “zestful and spontaneous.” Her love for moody monochromes transcends the barrier between solitude and sentience. Bringing life to her surrealist ethos with her honest portrayals of everyday people on the streets, captured often without the need for creating a moment, show her range as an artist in her latest work which will be on full display at this upcoming event.
Art lovers can ruminate on each work and extract their own poetry or poignancy. But long after they have seen the Sanjay-Sanya show, the images will linger on – stark and graphic, holding incoherent snapshots, the sort that often appear in our dreams, but do not last. The joy for each of us will be how we connect the dots differently and relate the pictures with our own visual library.
Exhibition Details
Open to Public:
27th October – 31st October 2025
11:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Venue:
Visual Art Gallery
India Habitat Centre, Gate No. 2
Lodhi Road, New Delhi—
