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Here are a few installation shots of the Naseeb: Trafficked solo exhibition at Next Level Projects. Thanks to Sheyi, Laura and Anand for installing the works.

The installation of Naseeb: trafficed at Next Level Projects has been publicised on a number of occassions since the launch of the exhibition on Wednesday 29 February 2012. Thank you to all the editors who published the project.

The Telegraph’s Telephoto: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/9115621/Naseeb-Trafficked.html

Hotshoe Blog: http://hotshoeblog.wordpress.com/

Hackney Gazette: http://www.hackney.gov.uk/Assets/Documents/ht274.pdf

Naseeb: Trafficked has been selected as one of the top five exhibitions of the month by Time Out First Thursdays.

More information here: http:// www.firstthursdays.co.uk/art-events

http://www.firstthursdays.co.uk/galleries/next-level-projects

I’m delighted to announce my first solo exhibition for Naseeb: Trafficked, presented by Autograph ABP and NextLevel London. Please join us for the Private View on 28 February from 6.30pm at Next Level Projects on Hanbury Street. The exhibition will continue until 25 March. We look forward to seeing you there.

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In March I was commissioned to undertake a commission for CBM UK at the incredible Sagarmatha Choudhary Eye Hospital in Lahan. The hospital was opened in 1983 and has significantly improved the eye health in eastern Nepal, now performing 200-300 operations a day.

Thank you to CBM UK and the incredible staff at the hospital as well as the patients who shared their stories.

The work can be viewed here: http://www.sonalkantaria.com/Gallery_Seven_B.html

Naseeb: Trafficked will be exhibited at the Freien Museum in Berlin from 26 October to 2 November. The work forms part of a show on the subject of Border.

I’m pleased to announce my work, Naseeb: Trafficked has been chosen for the Delhi Photo Festival which takes place in October. As the project was undertaken in India where the issue of trafficking into prostitution is as it’s worst, it’s hugely important that this issue is discussed in its country of orgin.

I’d like to thank the organisers for selecting the work.

A link to the exhibitions can be found here: http://www.delhiphotofestival.com/content/exhibitions-0

The Modelling in India story which I undertook back in April was featured in the Sunday Telegraph Magazine on the 14 August.

The online version can be found here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/8695068/A-stroll-down-Indias-catwalks.html

A big thank you to especially to Lucy and also to Horatia and the Telegraph team as well as all the models, designers and industry professionals who I met in India.

I’m delighted to announce that the trafficking project I undertook last year in India has been selected by the Photographers’ Gallery for the FreshFacedandWildEyed11 exhibition.

http://freshfacedwildeyed.photonet.org.uk/page/10/Competition-Gallery/103

Many thanks to Edmund Clark, Tim Clark, Louise Clements, and Brett Rogers for selecting the work.

Editing is in full swing after being away for almost 7 weeks in Nepal and India. Here are a few tasters from the Nepal commission for CBM UK.

More will be posted in due course.

Naseeb: Trafficked has been selected as a finalist story for the KL Photoawards.

http://www.klphotoawards.com/klpa11top10slide/kantaria.slideshow/index.html

I will be with the NGO and girls I worked with and photographed in Mumbai with later this month.

The very talented Jane Mason was featured in the Eco Hero section of the Saturday Telegraph magazine on 26 March 2011.

Many many thanks to Cheryl and Andy for the commission.

I’ve recently commissioned by CBM, the oldest disability charity, to undertake a project in Nepal. The largest eye hospital in Nepal and one of the largest in the world is based in Lahan.

Here’s the project page: http://www.cbmuk.org.uk/our-work/project/asia-and-pacific/nepal/eastern-regional-eye-care-erec-programme

I’ll be travelling to Nepal on the 25 March to document the stories of patients who travel across India and Nepal to be treated for various eye surgeries, the most common being cataract.

I’ll aim to post updates on the project regularly.

AG Magaine published Naseeb: Trafficked in its AG 62 Issue as one of four portfolios in the Scene Around section of the magazine.

Thank you to Chris Dickie for publishing.

Naseeb: Trafficked was featured on the Resource Magazine blog on Tuesday 11 January. The post can be seen here: http://resourcemagonline.com/blog/why-was-this-happening-how-was-it-happening/