Q. Could you throw light on this project?
A. This project — where I have captured faces of local Kashmiri people — is part of a bigger project that involves me clicking faces of people belonging to different cultures across the world. The aim was to show the locals of the state in a different light. Everyone thinks Kashmir is a region that is always consumed by war and the people there are always unhappy or depressed due to this. Capturing the expressions of the locals as they went about their daily routine was the main aim of this project, so as to show others that it is not always pain that is depicted on the faces of the locals.