From 2016 to 2019, on the initiative of Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, an exchange programme was organised between the photography departments of the National Institute of Design (NID), Gandhinagar, and the Academy of Fine Arts (HGB), Leipzig. A total of 16 students and five teachers from the two institutions took part in this long-term project. Responses is a photography exhibition which emerged out of the four-year collaboration, which will be on display at the institute in Kala Ghoda from next week.

Curated by Annette Kisling, Amarnath Praful, Rishi Singhal and Arthur Zalewski — all of them professors from the two institutes — the exhibition explores a spectrum of 21 photographic works produced as the participants ventured to make new meanings out of unfamiliar settings.