PHOTOS FROM THE FIELD

Current project | precarious livelihoods in coastal mumbai

Pulling the net

Lunch at the sea

Preparing for the fishing season

Koli fishermen employ Muslim villagers for stitching new nets after buying the raw material from one of the Koli associations

Mending old nets with a tool known as tasri

Boat art

Lady and ray, Malad fish market

Cats, Madh koliwada

Beaked sea snakes are a common by-catch

Preying on fish

After the customers are gone, Sassoon Docks

Nets, boat, and the sea, Worli koliwada

Worli koliwada

Basketmaker, Madh koliwada

Break, Marol dry fish market

Catch of the day arrives, Madh koliwada

Bombay duck drying in the sun, Madh koliwada

Koli statue, Mahim

Yellow boxfish

Squids, Sassoon Docks

Migrant fish workers, Sassoon Docks

Dancing on the day of Dahi Handi (lit. “clay pot of yogurt”), a day after Gokulashtami. The name Dahi Handi derives from a legend according to which baby Krishna was very fond of milk products and used to come up with ingenious plots, including human pyramids, in an effort to steal some butter, milk, or yogurt. That’s why people hid their milk products out of baby Krishna’s reach.