Strictly for Natalya, Technoserve only. Embargo, 6 months.

Nala Designs, by founder and designer Lisette Scheers, is a design label inspired by Malaysia's melting pot of Chinese, Malay and Indian cultures. Photos by Suzanne Lee for Monocle

Nearly 2500 villagers including Srinagar, the capital of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, was devastated by severe floods and landslides in September 2014 the worst in 60 years, displacing millions of people, many of them children.

Safe Water Network works with local communities that live beyond the water pipeline to establish sustainable and reliable water treatment stations within their villages to provide potable and safe water to the communities at a nominal cost.

Singapore: Vertical Gardens was done for the #FutureOfCities project, a PANOS Pictures inspired group project done with the support of Sony. With a growing urban population, high-rise buildings will feature prominently in future cities. Land is a major constraint in most Asian cities and in the face of high-density urbanisation, the only way is to build upwards. In Singapore, being a dense metropolis where land area is extremely limited, high-rise building forms have for years typified the urban fabric. In this installation of the FutureOfCities project, I focus on Singapore’s explorations of verticality and their vertical gardening projects that dot the ever-growing city to see how the city actively enhances their vertical liveability by colliding nature and modern architecture, thus sealing the future of vertical living.

“ Israel is in my heart, but India is in my blood. ” - Ezekiel Isaac Malekar Indian Jewish Trails - Closing Curtains. This ongoing project explores the dwindling communities of indigenous Indian Jews who for thousands of years have been a part of India’s rich cultural and religious tapestry. It studies the stories of those few who have stayed in India despite the call in 1951 to make aliyah (‘return’ to Israel), striving to maintain links to their native lands and histories, and their determination in the preservation of their ancient religious and cultural heritage. The story of India's Jewish community in the aftermath of the mass exodus has rarely been told in depth. Despite the creation of Israel and hence a refuge for all Jews, the Indian Jewish Diaspora persists and survives, holding within its walls of memory and personal lives a unique identity and heritage that may have been damaged, but has not died. The events of the 1950s and 60s decimated India's special Jewish population causing the community to struggle, but they continue to contribute to India's cultural landscape. Though largely unseen and unheard, even within India itself, the Jewish people are determined to remain a part of her. Here I seek to encapsulate the melancholy and nostalgia - that is the beauty of their culture, the deep-rootedness of their Indian identity, and the uniqueness of what it means to be an Indian Jew in 21st century India. - Suzanne Lee

Child Labour in India's Coal Mines: Minor Miners is my ongoing investigation into child labour in Indian coal mines and broader socio-economic realities that force families to use their children as full-time breadwinners doing hard labour. I explore not just the day-to-day conditions of life imposed on India's weakest and most vulnerable, but also the extensive socio-economic institutions that create these dire situations.

Surrogacy in India.

India's first muslim woman boxing referee

Tamsin Greig, an actress from the United Kingdom, speaks with Tearfund beneficiaries in Nirmal Bhavan, a rehabilitation home for trafficked and rescued girls run by Tearfund partner NGO Oasis India, in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India on 20 February 2014.

UK celebrity Myleene Klass meets underprivileged mothers in Metro Manila on a fact-finding mission in The Philippines with aid agency Save the Children UK for their campaign, 'Power of the First hour', calling for greater awareness on the benefits of breastfeeding, and warnings on dangers of not breastfeeding to be printed in large on formula packaging. Thousands of babies are dying from fatal diseases they would have been better protected from had they been breastfed. Many mothers in countries like The Philippines haven't been educated on health benefits of breast milk so instead rely on formula they can barely afford. The campaign says 830,000 babies worldwide could be saved every year if they were breastfed from birth. The campaign was launched on 18th February 2013.

Rural Journalists Grand Reportage shot in India for Marie Claire France, March 2013 issue. 9 page spread.

Dr. Vandana Shiva holds a bouquet of dried wheat, millet and fenugreek as she poses amongst hanging dried crops and her laboratory coat in the Navdanya Seed bank in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, on 6th September 2009. The inside walls of the seed bank have all been painted by Gujarati and Rajasthani tribal artists. Dr. Vandana Shiva, the founder of Navdanya Foundation and Bijavidyapeeth, is a physicist turned environmentalist who campaigns against genetically modified food and teaches farmers to rely on indigenous farming methods.

I photograph case studies of young mothers, child marriages, and community health workers in hospitals, pharmacies and homes in remote villages following Save the Children's work together with grassroots NGOs combating child marriages and teenaged pregnancies and pushing education on family planning, women empowerment, and the importance and access to contraception, in rural areas of Terai region, Western Nepal. In Bardia, they work with the district health office to build the capacity of female community health workers who are on the frontline of health service provision like ante-natal and post-natal care, and work together against child marriage and teenage pregnancy especially in rural areas. In Surkhet, they partner with Safer Society, a local NGO which advocates for child rights and against child marriage.

I do photo and video shoots for corporate clients

Profiling a young Politician in India's Bellwether state, Uttar Pradesh. (unpublished)

Selection of published work

Three elderly women who were the original refugees of The Partition recall being brought to Cooper's Camp on trains and trucks as they gather outside their homes in Cooper's Camp, Nadia district, Ranaghat, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India, on 19th January, 2012. "The government will neither eat us nor spit us out." says Kamla Das. "They dropped us off here (in 1947) and I'm still here!" Over 60 years after the bloody creation of Bangladesh in 1947, refugees who fled what was then known as West Pakistan to India still live as refugees, raising their children as refugees, and standing in line for government handouts.

After Cyclone Aila struck the Sundarbans in 2009, locals still struggle with logged salt water that renders fertile farming land unusable on Gosaba island, Sundarban, West Bengal, India, on 18th January, 2012. Due to this loss of livelihood, many have had to turn to fishing or wild honey gathering in the forest reserve, exposing themselves to becoming prey for the sanctuary's booming tiger population. A successful Royal Bengal tiger breeding program has increased their numbers but decreased the number of husbands. There are now an estimated 3,000 widows in the villages where their husbands, have been killed by tigers. Photos by Suzanne Lee

Nargis Akhter takes care of her 7 month old son Nahid Hassan in her home compound in Gazipur village, Upazila Sreepur, Gazipur, Bangladesh on 21st September 2011. Nargis, now aged 19, was pulled out of school and wed when she was 12 years old as her family was afraid that she might become a victim of severe eve-teasing. Sad to leave school, she recalls being 'terrified, sad and uncertain' on the day of her marriage. Being married off at such a young age "is not good for health," she says. Her first baby died soon after birth and she is now raising her 2nd child.

Rural Bangladeshi women are being trained by NGO CARE Bangladesh as part of a project on empowering women in this traditionally patriarchal society. Named 'Aparajita', which means 'women who never accept defeat', these women are trained to sell products in their villages and others around them from door-to-door, bringing global products from brands such as BATA, Unilever and GDFL to the most remote of villages, and bringing social and financial empowerment to themselves.

studio, indoor and outdoor portraits of personalities done on corporate and editorial assignments.

Demographers expect India's population (now at 1.21 billion) to surpass the population of China, currently the most populous country in the world, by 2030. At that time, India is expected to have a population of more than 1.53 billion while China's population is forecast to be at its peak of 1.46 billion (and will begin to drop in subsequent years). Allahabad, a poorer district of the state of Uttar Pradesh, is the most populated district of the most populous state of India. While Ghaziabad, located close to India's capital city, Delhi, has a population of 4,661,452 with a sex ratio of 878 girls against every 1000 boys, and a high literary percentage of 85%, Allahabad, has a population of 5,959,798 and a sex ratio of 902 girls against every 1000 boys and a literacy rate of 74.41%.

Malaysian adventurers embark on a river expedition on Sungai Petuang, a tributary of the Kenyir Dam in Peninsular Malaysia.

Razia Shabnam, 28, was one of the first women boxers in Kolkata. She was also the first woman in her community in Ekbalpore, Calcutta, West Bengal to go to college. She is now a coach and one of only three international female boxing referees in India.

Hunting hobbyists are seen hunting wild boar with professional hunter Ah Kwi and his seven hunting dogs in Bukit Cerul, Kemaman, Terengganu, Malaysia. Boar hunting is encouraged by the authorities to keep the hyper-abundance of these native wild pigs in check. Wild boars are also hunted both for their meat and to mitigate any damage they may cause to crops and forests. A charging boar is considered exceptionally dangerous quarry, due to its thick hide and dense bones, making anything less than a kill shot a potentially deadly mistake.

In the Akanksha Infertility Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India, the mornings are full of hustle and bustle. European, African, Asian, American and Indian clients wait anxiously for their next egg and sperm count reports and there is an occasional spike of intense shared excitement of new biological parents' celebrations of their newborns. Dr. Nayna Patel's Akanksha Infertility Clinic is known internationally for its surrogacy program and currently has over a hundred surrogate mothers pregnant in their environmentally controlled surrogate houses.

Barefoot Engineers of the Barefoot College provide and maintain solar power to remote villages in rural Rajasthan, India. Sanjit Bunker Roy, founder of the Barefoot College, believes in empowering women and illiterate villagers by marrying inherited village knowledge with basic technology studies for a very unique kind of specialist.

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Travel images of Mumbai, once known as Bombay, and its people of many faiths, buildings of varied architecture styles and its shantytowns and luxury hotels along the marine drive, known fondly as 'the queens necklace'.

With over 575 million people, India will have 41 percent of its population living in cities and towns by 2030 from the present level of 286 million. Urban poverty in India remains high, at over 25 percent. Over 80 million poor people live in the cities and towns of India. (Source: National Sample Survey Organisation's survey report). This is roughly equal to the population of Egypt. Urban poverty poses the problems of housing and shelter, water, sanitation, health, education, social security and livelihoods along with special needs of vulnerable groups like women, children and aged people. Here, I explore the state of the poor and homeless in India's capital city, Delhi.

With the onset of the genocidal rule of the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia took a serious turn for the worse from the late 1970s through the early eighties. When the Khmer Rouge were finished killing or starving as much as 20% of the population and finally thrown out of power, the land turned into a lawless morass with all that implies. During this time, numerous people were left disabled. A particularly significant disability was blindness, which arose from untreated disease and sicknesses, lack of medical care, land-mine trauma, torture and even acid-muggings. Seeing Hands is an initiative of the Association for the Blind in Cambodia. Seeing Hands massage centres are small scale businesses operated by blind Khmers employing only blind masseuses. Here, I document the daily events of a small community in a Seeing Hands centre.

Mayawati, U.P.'s Chief Minister for the 4th time in a row, is an icon for millions of India's Dalits, or "Untouchables" who provide an important base for her after centuries of oppression by the Hindu upper castes. But more than that, she is known nation wide as an extremely corrupt, extortionist, untrustworthy, politician who governs with an iron fist and strikes fear in all under her rule. Seen here are massive construction works ordered by Mayawati, but what they are building are hundreds of statues of herself (some even with a clearly marked Versace handbag) and her mentor besides a few other Dalit leaders. There are hundreds of these structures under construction in U.P., which could end up costing $250 million dollars of public money.

India : Development, modernity, Agriculture, Healthcare, Poverty, Homeless people, Youth, Modernity, prostitution, environmental issues, tiger attacks, profiles on personalities and much more.

Indelible Ink used for the upcoming 2009 India Lok Sabha Elections have been filled into the 15ml capacity phials. In each phial, 10ml of ink is filled, and if properly applied, can be used to mark as many as 700 voters. Only one company, Mysore Paints and Varnish, manufactures the secret formula of indelible ink that is used for all Indian elections since the biggest democratic nation in the world started using ink to mark the fingers of its voters in 1962.

"We give our tea plantation constant and natural assistance with biodynamic techniques. One look at our land, even to the unschooled eye, will show a forest teeming with wildlife and plant life, a bounty of the sky with butterflies and birds, and all these synergistic life forces show up in the cup." -Rajah Banerjee. More British than the British themselves is the flamboyant owner of the sprawling Makaibari tea estate, Swaraj Banerjee, better known as Rajah Banerjee. Rajah's great grandfather, G.C. Banerjee, founded this estate in Kurseong, Darjeeling during the British Raj on the 1840s. Four generations down, Rajah is renowned for his transformation of Makaibari into the world's first biodynamic tea estate, and is one of the few estate owners who actually live on the estate and walks it daily, dressed in his signature khaki safari jacket and Jodhpurs. This charming, intensely tea-passionate Rajah is also responsible for a long list of visionary accomplishments in the industry that includes putting women as the leaders in the estate communities and leading Makaibari to produce some of the most expensive teas in the world. Their creation, the Silver Tips Imperial is the current World Record holder as the most expensive tea auctioned. Here, we follow Rajah and his team as they produce the Muscatel Second Flush, a tea that fetches high premiums, as it is processed from bush to teacup.

The 6318 / Himsagar Express, India's longest running train journey, takes us on a journey from the Indian Himalayas to the southern-most tip of India, spanning over 3720 kilometres. The train takes over 72 hours (often with delays) and halts at over 70 stations, crossing 9 states in the vast expanses of India. A wide diversity of locals travel on this train - students returning home to their hometowns, farmers going from village to village, families and sadhus of making pilgrimage and even people just going to work for the week. Buskers, beggars, snake charmers, chai and hot meal hawkers, toiletries peddlers and newspaper wallahs regularly punctuate the festive and pensive air as they hop on and off the moving train as it passes through the ever-changing countryside landscapes and 'smell-scapes'.

Kushti wrestlers in Delhi, India. Kushti, an ancient martial art of mud wrestling is still practiced today as these traditional warriors now compete in the international sport arenas of modern wrestling. Despite having won medals in the international style of wrestling, these sportsmen still train the traditional way, but that is about to change as the Indian sports councils try to ban mud wrestling in favour of the more modern mat wrestling training.

Travel photographs of Srinagar and the surrounding villages in Kashmir, India. Tourism and the local's floating vegetable market on Dal Lake, religious spaces, and a Kashmiri wedding.

Travel story, the desert Valley of Ladakh (and around). Ladakh (capital : Leh town - 3505 meters) is a high altitude remote valley tucked away in the Indian Himalayan mountains. Only accessible by road for about 2 months of the year, Ladakh remains a world removed from the rest of the country. Tibetan buddhism is practiced by most Ladakhis, but in actual fact, this Mahayana buddhism was practiced in Ladakh and Kashmir long before the Tibetans themselves.