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Here is a black-and-white frame of Mother Teresa ducking under a barbed wire during the elections to the Missionaries of Charity in 1991. There is a child marriage happening in Midnapore,West Bengal. And here is a scene from Kabul where a bearded man trains his pinhole camera on his customer. “Song of the Road”,the exhibition by photojournalist Dilip Banerjee at the Lalit Kala Akademi,captures three decades in 85 frames.

Banerjee,57,began his journey in Kolkata’s Burrabazar where he jostled in the crowd with a Pentax slung on his shoulder. “A couple of years ago,I was going through my negatives and old prints and I decided to tell again the stories of people and events that have brought about a change in society,” says Banerjee. He points to the black-and-white photo of the child marriage. The photo,which was published in a daily in 1989,he says,led to the arrest of the parents. There is also a striking diptych,Kalashnikov Krishna,of a saffron-robed foreigner tending to his flock of sheep in India in 1984 alongside a gangly youth in war-affected Sudan in 2004. In another fascinating image,his camera captures a nun in Kolkata,hands raised in fear during the riots following the fall of Babri Masjid in 1992.

Deftly avoiding clichés,the exhibition manages to portray both the spectacular and the ordinary. The images are priced at Rs 23,000 upwards.

The exhibition is on till February 14,Contact 01123387242