Send an essay
to the Lighthouse
The Lighthouse is where the archive says what the photographs add up to. Most of it was written in-house. Album 011 came in through this form, from somebody who had been watching the walls around Jantar Mantar, which is exactly what we hoped for.
The full guidance is in the submission guidelines. The short version: 800 to 1,600 words, written from photographs that are already in the archive, with dates and numbers you can point to. Your own writing, in your own voice. Nothing written by a chatbot.
First-hand accounts are especially welcome. You were at the march. You made the placard. You sat the exam. That is a thing no amount of research substitutes for.
A curator reads everything that arrives. Expect a first reply within about a week, and if we go quiet for longer, write again, because that means something broke at our end.