She began taking pictures of Bombay in 1980 under the tutelage of renowned photographer Raghubir Singh. Ketaki Sheth won the Sanskriti Award for Indian photography in 1992 and the Higashikawa Award 2006 in Japan for best foreign photographer. She has published two well received books of her photography- Bombay Mix (with an introduction by Suketu Mehta) and Twinspotting: Patel twins in Britain and India.