Photographer Bharat Sikka grew up in India, but it was in 2013 that he took a holiday with his family to the mountain-studded northern state of Kashmir for the first time. Belying the area’s sublime snow-capped beauty, a political and sectarian conflict still wages between China, Pakistan and India. It was in this context that the Parsons photography graduate read Mirza Waheed’s novel The Collaborator which “tells the story of a young Kashmiri man’s struggle with his own sense of self, buffeted by the exigencies of history and the present”. Inspired, Bharat returned to the region the two years after, his purpose to photograph Kashmiri people in an “attempt to make some sense of their dilemma through his own personal experience.”
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