Earlier in December 2025 and January 2026, I spent several days in Rajasthan photographing camels hauling sand from riverbeds and pulling brick-laden carts at kilns for Society for the Protection of Animals Abroad (SPANA). I also documented bullocks and buffaloes used for farm work in Mayurbhanj and Balasore in Odisha. Based in the UK, SPANA works to improve the welfare of working animals worldwide. The assignment offered a close look at the relationships between owners and animals, and how central these animals are to rural livelihoods, forming part of my broader documentary work with non-profits focused on rural economies and labour.

SPANA has since rebranded as Working Animals International, a name that reflects its global focus. Founded in 1923, the organisation supports working animals across Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America through veterinary care, training for owners and policy advocacy. These animals remain essential to daily life, providing transport, income and access to services, yet their welfare is often overlooked. Projects like these often feed into long-term visual documentation for NGOs, supporting communication, reporting and advocacy efforts.

To mark the launch, the charity is hosting Impossible to Overlook at Fujifilm House of Photography in Covent Garden from 22 to 26 April, 2026. The exhibition highlights the role of working animals through projects by several talented photographers including Maheder Haileselassie, Charmaine Chitate, Abdellah Azizi and Badr and myself. Several of my images are part of the show, including the lead, reflecting an ongoing practice of documenting development work with an emphasis on empathy, dignity and informed consent.

I regularly work with international and Indian non-profits to document their work across India and create images that are both visually compelling and grounded in context. Take a look at my other work here.

“For as long as I can remember, mother never took a day off. Father slept all day and got drunk and beat her at night, but she would be back in the fields the next morning.”

Jagyani Sravanthi’s mother Gongalla Vijaya, a farmer, killed herself in December 2016 in Ramnagar Thanda near Jangalapally in Telangana’s Jayashankar Bhupalapally district. Telangana recorded the largest number of suicides among women farmers in 2015, according to the National Crime Records Bureau of India. Data for 2016 is still awaited.

From a recent assignment for OPEN magazine, working on an issue extremely close to my heart- India’s agrarian crisis. Please read the story by V Shoba here.

Happy to see the story finally appear in the April issue of NEON. The magazine doesn’t post their stories online, but you check out a selection of photos from the assignment here.

Having signed a string of multibillion-dollar orders from foreign firms to make parts for helicopters, jet fighters and trains, India is struggling to find people with the skills to build them.

Earlier this month, World Vision India sent me to Guntur in Andhra Pradesh, India to document problems being faced by HIV positive people in the wake of a severe shortage of Antiretroviral drugs. This work will be part of Ek Nazar, a group exhibition where I share space with with Srinivas Kuruganti and Mark Antony, on the occasion of World AIDS Day in Delhi. The exhibition will later travel to many cities across India.