Following the revocation of Jammu and Kashmir's special status under Article 370 in August 2019 and Ladakh's conversion to a Union Territory under direct administration from New Delhi, the region has undergone accelerated infrastructural development alongside a substantially expanded military and paramilitary presence along the Line of Actual Control with China and Pakistan.

The images come from a 2023 visit: 8:1 panoramas of coloured mountains with roads paved through them, military bases and oil depots alongside shepherds, concrete mixers in large valleys, BRO infrastructure against the Ladakhi expanse. The work traces the quiet alignments between militarisation, infrastructural expansion, and older colonial ways of seeing Ladakh — and how these reorder who gets to decide over this land.

Among the sites documented: the Indian Oil Corporation's Indane LPG bottling plant at Phey village, Leh district — at 11,800 feet above sea level, the highest such facility in the world. In 2026 this work was bound into a concertina book, The Land In Between →, made in response to Sonam Wangchuk's hunger strikes and the ongoing fight for Ladakh's autonomy.