Among Them

For more than a decade, I have photographed the ways humans and animals live alongside each other across India — in villages, streets, markets, and homes.

These photographs are not about animals alone, or people alone, but about a shared existence. Animals are part of daily life here: they are cared for, depended upon, worked with, ignored, and sometimes simply present. Their presence is constant, woven into routines that often go unnoticed.

The images move between moments of interaction and moments of quiet coexistence — a hand reaching out, a body at rest, a pause in the middle of movement. There is no clear boundary between human space and animal space; both occupy the same ground.

This work is an ongoing observation of that relationship — not dramatic, not staged, but ordinary and continuous. A way of seeing what is already there, in plain sight.