Description

The Silk Road is the instant. The instant is the journey. The camera is Ishrat Syed’s blink of discovery.

A photograph, like a poem, encloses a private space of thought. In these images, Ishrat explores this concealed world and ponders their meanings in accompanying essays.

My Silk Road will induce contemplation of the richness of life captured in brilliant images and illuminate not just the photographer’s wonder, but also enhance your own.

Ishrat Syed is a general and pediatric surgeon. My Silk Road documents the exhibition at the Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai in March 2026.

Ishrat’s photography is the springboard for ideas and analyses in his writing, published in collaboration with Kalpana Swaminathan — they write together as Kalpish Ratna.