I was recently honoured to have three of my photographs included in the Photo|Frome Festival as part of the ‘inEquality’ Exhibition, hosted at the excellent Roseberry Road Studios in Bath, England, UK. It’s always a buzz to see your work printed large and in good company, but even more so when the theme digs into something real—something that matters.
The 2025 edition of Photo|Frome brings together a diverse group of national and international photographers, each offering their own visual response to the timely and urgent theme of inequality. Whether economic, cultural, environmental or human, the imbalance is everywhere. The exhibition doesn’t claim to solve it, but it does demand we look.
Roseberry Road Studios, one of the newer venues for the festival, is a working creative space that fits the tone perfectly—raw, real, and grounded. The festival as a whole spans 14 free exhibitions across the town, with workshops, talks, photowalks, portfolio reviews and a ‘Faces of Frome’ portrait studio creating space for conversation and community. It’s great to see photography being used this way—free to view, open to all, and unafraid to ask hard questions.
My three selected images each take a slightly different approach to the theme of inequality, drawn from my travels over the last decade:
1. Sunday Morning, Kailash Colony, New Delhi
Captured on my most recent trip to India, this overhead shot shows several families approaching a car at a junction in the Kailash Colony area of Delhi, asking for food and money. It’s a quiet but confronting moment—routine for many, but hard to ignore. Shot looking down from the roof of my Hostel, it offers a removed, observational view that mirrors the distance many people feel from such realities.
2. Trash on the Streets of Cusco
Taken a decade ago while I was living in Peru, this image captures a woman in traditional Andean clothing rummaging through a pile of rubbish in central Cusco—the so-called gateway to Machu Picchu. Again viewed from above, the contrast between the city’s tourist veneer and the daily grind of local life speaks volumes about what gets seen and what doesn’t.
3. Contrasting Scenes of India, A Varanasi Ghat
One of my earliest shots from India, this scene from Varanasi’s Asii Ghat feels like a microcosm of the country’s layered contrasts. Again taken from above, the frame includes a group of Western Tourists sitting and chatting, local women in colourful traditional clothing having a break from work, a homeless, amputee beggar lying sleeping next to a large cow. It’s a surreal clash—privilege and poverty, devotion and despair, all sharing the same ancient steps in uneasy harmony.
All three images are connected by a literal angle—shot from above—but more importantly by the social divide beneath the surface. These aren’t posed or dramatic scenes, just slices of life that speak quietly but clearly to the subject of inequality.
Thanks again to the Photo|Frome and Roseberry Road Studios for selecting my work and for giving space to the kinds of stories that need to be seen. There are plenty more examples of inequality in my travel photography, to view more of my India selection take a look at my Flickr collection here.
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