(From right to left) Dr Sushila Nayar, Mahatma Gandhi, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Amtus Salam and others walking in the countryside of North West Frontier Provinces, October 1938

When his grandnephew Kanu Gandhi began photographing him in 1937, Mahatma Gandhi imposed three conditions — that he would never use a flash, that he would never ask him to pose and that the Sevagram Ashram, where Gandhi took residence in his later years, would not fund his photography. What emerged was a collection of over 2,000 candid photographs of the Mahatma during the last 10 years of his life. Forty-two from these will be part of Kanu’s Gandhi, a photo-exhibit that opens at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) this Thursday. The Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation and the Museum in collaboration with New Delhi-based non-profit Nazar Foundation will present it. The platform aims to promote the photographic arts through interactions, exhibitions, publishing and workshops.