An exploration into the old studios suggests a significant contribution of the studio photographers in building the cultural face of photography in India and is reminiscent of a past, of a history that has hardly been visited and is mostly lost into time or is on the verges of being so.
In the context of development of photography in India, it was perhaps the studios, where professionals expanded their practice and it is for this reason that old photo studios become an important point of consideration and deserve a bigger research, where the history of photography in India is waiting be be unraveled.
To further the argument, an understanding of photography in these very spaces should lead us into understanding the historical and cultural specificity of the practice.
