SELECT PHOTO COMMISSIONS

• “Immigrants abandon Kamala Harris in New York,” Financial Times, 2024
• “The Quest to Decode the Mandelbrot Set, Math’s Framed Fractal,” Quanta Magazine, 2024
• “A Superintendent Becomes a Lifetime for Senior Tenants,” The New York Times, 2023
• “He Followed in the Family Footsteps. And He Found a Home,” The New York Times, 2023
• “Rachel Reeves embraces ‘Bidenomics’ as blueprint for a Labour government,” Financial Times, 2023
• “The new ‘blood diamonds’: the elaborate plan to halt Russia’s trade,” Financial Times, 2023
• “What Causes Alzheimer’s? Scientists Are Rethinking the Answer,” Quanta Magazine, 2022
•  “Army of Women Earning $4 a Day Could Be Behind Your Next Phone: The world’s largest contract manufacturer, Foxconn, is seeking to reduce its reliance on China as Trump’s trade war drags on,” Bloomberg News, 2019
• “En Inde, les conséquences dévastatrices du tabou sur les règles,” Le Monde, 2019
• “A Diamond Scandal Is Hurting India’s Economy in Grip of Slowdown,” Bloomberg News, 2019
•  “How the #MeToo Cases That Shook India Have Played Out: Accusers have faced setbacks. Still, they have changed the system in India – for everyone,” Bloomberg News, 2019
• “Moonshot Ends in Failure for India and Its Water-Hunting Rover,” Bloomberg News, 2019
• “The World’s Finest Saffron Is in Danger of Disappearing: Drought and climate change are threatening the livelihood and traditions of Kashmir’s saffron-farming families,” Saveur, 2019
• “Billionaire’s Folly Becomes Banker’s Nightmare: What happens when a privately built and managed city goes bust? We may soon find out,” Bloomberg News, 2018
• “The Toy Maker Who Weaves Trash Into Educational Gold: Arvind Gupta, an engineer and toy maker in India, teaches science using discarded matchsticks and soccer balls,” BRIGHT Magazine, 2017
• “The Classrooms Hidden in Mumbai’s Seams: Educators are bringing the classroom to thousands of Mumbai’s children out of school-in school buses, treehouses and beyond,” BRIGHT Magazine, 2015
• “Special delivery: meet Mumbai’s ‘errand executives,” The Guardian, 2015
• “India’s Booming Standup Comedy Scene Tests Boundaries With Cutting-Edge Jokes,” The Washington Post, 2014
• “A Regional Film Industry Looks Beyond Its Borders,” The Caravan, 2014
• “Sumaira Abdulali fights to lower noise levels in Mumbai, India’s capital of noise,” The Washington Post, 2013
  

PUBLICATIONS AS AUTHOR

• “The Female Bodybuilders of India: Bodybuilding is one of the most extreme avatars of gym culture. Despite taboos and financial constraints, female bodybuilders in India continue to compete,” The Juggernaut, 2019
•  “En Inde, la mixite passe (parfois) par le sport,” Courrier International, 2019
•  “Disc World: Chennai’s Ultimate Frisbee players navigate one of India’s only mixed-gender sports,” The Caravan, 2018
•  “In Her Element: The life of a poet and poison healer in Kerala,” The Caravan, 2018
• “Wrestling Against Prejudice and Poverty In India,”NewsDeeply, 2017
• “A League Of Their Own: The girls of this small Indian town have started a soccer revolution,” Roads & Kingdoms, 2017
•  “Let the daughters run: How Haryana’s girls are writing their own script,” Fountain Ink, 2017
• “What A Six-Week Road Trip Through Ladakh Looks Like,” Verve Magazine, 2017
• “Indian acid attack victims share their stories: Five women describe how their lives were changed in an instant when they were attacked with acid, Al Jazeera, 2016
• “On set with India’s child actors: In India’s film and television industry, competition is fierce and expectations high – even for its youngest actors,” Al Jazeera Magazine, 2015
•  “In Picture: India’s Gun Violence Widows,” BBC, 2014
•  “In Pictures: Manipur’s ‘custodial killings’ – Irom Sharmila’s release has once again put focus on extra-judicial deaths at hands of army in northeastern Indian state,” Al Jazeera, 2014
• “In Pictures: Mumbai’s dying Irani cafes. Iconic street-corner cafes are shuttering down one by one as peoples’ tastes change and more glitzy eateries take over,” Al Jazeera, 2014
• “In Pictures: India’s largest Sufi festival – Thousands gather at Ajmer for annual Urs festival commemorating death of Sufi saint,” Al Jazeera, 2014
• “The War Cry of Niyamgiri,” The Sunday Telegraph (link unavailable, in print), 2014
• “In Assam, villagers struggle to protect their land from the roaring Brahmaputra: The mighty river provides food and livelihoods to millions. It is also eroding their land,” Scroll.in, 2014
• “The Battle For Niyamgiri: How one Indian tribe took on an international mining company and won,” Al Jazeera Magazine (link broken, out of publication), 2013

WEB DOCUMENTARIES

• “A Crammed Commute Where Men Aren’t Allowed,” BBC, 2018
• “Meet the Man Who May Be India’s Last Taxidermist: The self-taught craftsman preserves wild animals from all over the country for future generations to enjoy-but worries his art will die with him,” National Geographic, 2018
• “India’s First Transgender Athletics,” AJ+, 2017
• “Rooftop Farmers: Greening Empty Spaces of Mumbai,” AJ+, 2015

EXHIBITIONS

• Like Gold, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India, 2025-2026 
• Performance Reading, Readings in the Garden, Anonymous Gallery, NYC, 2022
• Art 52nd Street, Gallery MC, New York, 2021
• Four Inches Off The Wall, 25 E Gallery, Parsons School of Design, 2019
• Tisseurs D’Images Festival, Angers, France, 2018
• Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa, India, 2017
• Digital presentation titled ‘Anthropocenic Mindscapes’ at Angkor Photo Festival, Siem Reap, Cambodia, 2017
• Behind the Portrait Group Exhibition, Gulf Photo Plus, Dubai, UAE, 2017
• Chennai Photo Biennale, Chennai, India, 2016
• Pondy Photo Fesival, Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu, India, 2015
• MinD (Made in Dubai) Art Festival, Dubai, UAE, 2010
• Digital Presentation at the Angkor Photo Festival, Siem Reap, Cambodia, 2009
• Fundraiser group exhibition ‘Art for Gaza’ for Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund at Dubai Community Theatre and Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE, 2009

AWARDS, NOMINATIONS, WORKSHOPS AND PANELS

• Artist Fellow, Interdisciplinary Art & Theory Program, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, 2024-25
• Artist in Residence, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Arts (MASS MoCA), 2022
• Artist Talk, Indian Photo Festival, 2021
• Finalist, UC Berkeley MFA South Asia Art Prize for North America and Europe, 2020
• Nominee for Prix Pictet Award, 2019
• Selected Participant at National Geographic Out of Eden Walk Slow Journalism Workshop with Paul Salopek in Chennai, India, 2018
• Speaker on Panel about Gender and Pay Gaps in Creative Industries at WeWork in Mumbai, India, 2018
• Selected Participant at Chennai Photo Biennale Workshop in Chennai, India, 2016
• Selected Participant at Journalists Training Workshop for Climate Change by the Himalayan Institute of Climate Adaptation Programme in Assam, India, 2014
• Finalist in IPA (Invisible Photographer Asia) Street Photography Asia Award, 2013
• Selected Participant, Angkor Photography Workshop in Siem Reap, Cambodia, 2009