A concertina book made in 2026 from the Ladakh photographs — four long panels connected at 90-degree angles, folding out into a near-complete rectangle. A single object, made once.
The Land In Between is bound from the photographs made in Ladakh in 2023, but the book itself is a 2026 object — made while the region's future was being argued over in the open. The form follows from the images: a conventional page cannot hold an 8:1 panorama without cutting it off. The concertina lets the land run unbroken across four panels, then folds back on itself into a near-complete rectangle — a horizon you can hold.
It was made in response to Sonam Wangchuk's hunger strikes and the broader movement for Ladakh's autonomy — the demand for statehood and Sixth Schedule protections that would return some measure of control over land, ecology, and governance to Ladakhis. Since the region's 2019 conversion into a centrally administered Union Territory, that control has sat with New Delhi rather than with the people who live there.
The book does not argue a position so much as hold a tension: the beauty of a place and the machinery being driven through it; what is pictured and who gets to decide its future. It is a one-off — for now.