Rohini Devasher

Luminous Archives is a series of solargraphs—photographic works created through a combination of pinhole photography and digital processing. Each image is made with a pinhole camera: a simple can or tube with a tiny hole and photographic paper inside, capturing sunlight over days, weeks, or months. As the Earth moves, the Sun’s path leaves glowing trails on the film—paths we cannot ‘see’ with our eyes.
    Over the course of a year, Devasher recorded the ecliptic—or the Sun’s path across the sky—using pinhole cameras placed around two locations in the National Capital Region (NCR), including Delhi. The series experiments with extremely long exposure photography, capturing the visible and the invisible.
    Devasher is an artist and amateur astronomer whose research-intensive practice explores the intersections between the humanities and sciences.