I first visited Ladakh in the summer of 2022. I was instantly mesmerised. Sitting at 11,500 ft, it’s one of India’s remotest northern outposts. I have since returned several times to this high altitude, cold desert. Unfolding in a dramatic landscape of towering mountains, vast windswept plains, glacial lakes, rivers, and valleys carved deep into the earth, it’s the stark geography of the place that draws me each time. It’s also the light. There is an otherworldly quality to it as it moves across the valleys and mountains creating luminosity and shadow, in a way that is impossible to experience anywhere else in India. There is also an extraordinary sense of expansiveness here.
The land stretches for miles, the sky seems endless, and you begin to feel your own smallness against it all. It is a deeply humbling feeling, one that stays with you long after you leave.

Dispatches From Ladakh, is an ongoing series that documents my time on the road here over the years. It’s a collection of images that brings together my enduring love of the landscape, the people of the region and all the little details of everyday life encountered here.