The Guild is delighted to present Magic City, an exhibition of photographic works by Navjot Altaf and Ram Rahman, open now at The Guild. The exhibition features photographs from two series of works centering in and around New York City.

Ram Rahman’s Manhattan Sirens show New York through the eyes of commerce, real estate, and architecture – its basis for being a trading port, home of Wall Street and major cultural institutions and museums. Navjot Altaf’s A Place in New York creates a dialogue between the richness and heterodoxy of the city which make it so vital, carving out the city’s stories upon the monuments and street corners alike, an imprint of the people who call it home one way or another.

The exhibition is open from Sunday, 23 November, 2025, and continues until 28 January, 2026. Watch this space to hear of upcoming events as part of the show!

Navjot Altaf is a major artistic voice in postcolonial Indian art. Her work is known both nationally and internationally and her nearly five decade-long practice involves painting, sculptures, installations, video and site-specific works that negotiate various disciplinary boundaries. She is one of the founder members of a centre Dialogue: Interactive Artists Association, Kondagaon, Chhattisgarh. Navjot has presented widely in India and internationally, with a major retrospective exhibition titled The Earth’s Heart, Torn Out, Navjot Altaf: A Life in Art - A Retrospective, held at the NGMA Mumbai, presented by The Guild, in 2018–2019. Navjot’s work has been written about and curated by some of the art world’s best, including Roobina Karode, and Nancy Adajania, who has written a definitive study of her practice – The Thirteenth Place: Positionality as Critique in the Art of Navjot Altaf – placing it in multiple art historical and political contexts. A two-volume publication Navjot At Work was published by The Guild in 2022 with essays by Geeta Kapur, Elena Bernardini, Grant Kester, and Leon Tan.

Ram Rahman is a contemporary Indian photographer and curator based in Delhi. He was born in 1955 to Indrani Rahman, a classical Indian dancer, and Habib Rahman, a noted Indian architect. Ram Rahman completed his degree in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is one of the founding members of the Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (SAHMAT), and co-curated the SAHMAT retrospective exhibition which opened at SMART Museum, University of Chicago, in February 2013. Rahman has been lecturing on aspects of contemporary Indian photography and architecture in the last few years at various institutions, and has curated a number of exhibitions in India and internationally.