“Black-and-white is king. King of kings,” the Indian photographer Max Vadukul has said. “Color is commercial.” Vadukul was born in 1961 in Nairobi, Kenya, to Indian parents. Growing up, he looked upon his father’s job at the optics company Carl Zeiss with growing interest. Vadukul moved to London at 16 and made waves when Lord David Puttnam commissioned a series of his photographs. He went on to become one of the world’s best portraitists, capturing Mick Jagger, Mother Teresa, Salman Rushdie, and Mikhail Baryshnikov in energized shots. Vadukul, now 61, has returned to his native India, where he places inflatable spheres coated in reflective paint in myriad landscapes. The spheres hang ominously above garbage fields, traffic, and the streets of Calcutta, a witness to the effects of climate change. This exhibition presents 20 photographs from the series. —Elena Clavarino