This project is about mourning for vultures as a declining species. I had heard many proverbs about vultures, such as 'Vultures always eye the garbage dump', or 'No matter how high a vulture flies, it always looks downwards' and one my grandmother used to say, 'A vulture hovering over our heads signals plenty of troubles ahead'. But I never imagined I would one day embark on a journey to see these birds up close.
To observe these majestic yet misunderstood creatures, I went to Bikaner in the province of Rajasthan, India. I was inspired to photograph them to prove that people's prejudices about the species were wrong.
