Ayan is an independent documentary photographer living in Ladakh. His practice involves visually representing the coexistence of indigenous people with the spaces they inhabit and understanding their lives from an ethnographic approach. He shows vignettes of lives, often employing banal objects and ordinary moments that define the identity. He has been exploring various historical processes through which photographs can be printed, as he believes every medium has its own language of expression. He teaches the locals and collaborates with them to explore how historical printing techniques can document culture and identity.