India, March 18 -- At first glance, Ishrat Syed appears to inhabit two distinct worlds-of the precise and interventionist surgeon, and of the patient and receptive photographer. Yet in 'My Silk Road', his sixth exhibition at Jehangir Art Gallery, these worlds converge into a singular, deeply attentive way of seeing.

For Syed, the act of looking is inseparable from the act of care. His photographs are not merely visual records; they are sites where history, geography, sociology, anthropology and spirituality intersect. Each frame-whether from Samarkand, Bukhara and Tashkent or from Mumbai or Mandu-carries these layered engagements, asking not just to be seen, but read.

"Everybody has their own Silk Road to discover," he observes gently. ...