This set of Photographs is from when I was in Udaipur in October.

I was teaching a Photography course at the local boys home and working with the charity Basti Ram who work facilitating healthcare and hygiene in local communities and access to education, making it possible for people to get well paid work and a have more promising and stable future.

I have been documenting the local tribal community, during my time working with them. In the Daangi tribe they rely hugely on good weather conditions for their survival. There are two types of tribal communities living in this area; the Gameti community, who all have their own farms and have a fairly sustainable environment, and the Daangi community, who work as farmers on other farmers' land, so only have jobs if the season has been good and work is needed. They might also grow a small amounts of crops on their land surrounding their house. This makes their lifestyle unstable and unpredictable. If they have work, they can sell some of what they've helped farm in the town to get money for food and clothes. If they don't have work, they have to find other ways of survival. It was beautiful to see how optimistic and positive their community was and how powerful the people were evne though they had so little. A some of the children reminded me of friends I had when I used to play in the back streets with my neighbours when I was younger. They had very similar bold, ballsy and often sacartic characters. It made the differences between us seem a lot slimmer.