Kabhi Khushi Kabbie Gham explores the lives of children growing up without a home or the support of their families. The photographs were taken in institutions including orphanages, temples, monasteries, dance schools, residential care homes, and prisons. What connects all of the children portrayed is their experience of the arbitrary actions and decisions of adults.

In Vietnam, the photographs were taken in a residential care home for disabled children, where many of the disabilities had been caused by exposure to Agent Orange during the American war in Vietnam. In Thailand, the work focuses on child monks living in a Buddhist monastery, many of whom had been sent there as an act of atonement for the perceived sins of their families. In Nepal, the photographs portray children living in prison alongside their incarcerated mothers because no relatives were able to care for them outside the prison.

In Delhi, India, the series documents children living in an orphanage, many of whom had been abandoned there as newborns. In South India, the photographs were taken at a Kathakali temple dance school, where many of the students came from poor families and the boarding school provided both education and support.

The exhibition consists of five large-scale photographic collages inspired by