Talks
Stereographs of India

Name: Stereographs of India
Start: 2025-11-23T11:00:00-0500
End: 2025-11-23T12:30:00-0500
Location: Royal Ontario Museum

Date

Sunday, Nov 23, 2025 11:00

Registration Opens

Tuesday, Sep 2, 2025 00:00

Admission

Conversations - Public: $35.00 Conversation Café - Member: $32.00

Audience

Adults

Coolies picking coffee on Sir Thomas Lipton's estate at Dambutenne, Interior Ceylon

Date

Sunday, Nov 23, 2025 11:00

Registration Opens

Tuesday, Sep 2, 2025 00:00

Admission

Conversations - Public: $35.00 Conversation Café - Member: $32.00

Audience

Adults

How do we photograph our travels? What do we want to remember, and why? This conversation workshop takes a close look at nineteenth- and early twentieth-century stereographs, which are photographs that produce 3D images when viewed through a device called a stereoscope. Stereographs connected the world by allowing armchair travellers to see and learn about various places and peoples, but they also reflected their photographers’ ways of viewing the world.

Join us for a hands-on experience, as we take a close look at stereographs of India. Why were they created, and how may they have influenced our perceptions of South Asia today?

Speaker

Farrukh Rafiq

Farrukh Rafiq is the Coordinator, South Asia Community Engagement at ROM where he has been developing and delivering workshops inspired by the South Asia collections. He is an art historian and educator with a doctorate in Art History from Queen’s University. His teaching methodology centers on amalgamating a multitude of interdisciplinary lenses to provide learners with a varied and comprehensive approach to both historical and contemporary art. Farrukh has also taught visual and digital arts courses at various art galleries and museums in the Greater Toronto Area, and has taught art history courses at the University of Toronto, Carleton University, and Concordia University.