She earned a BFA in Applied Art from the Delhi College of Art in India, a BFA in Photography from Parsons School of Design in New York City, and an MFA in Art from Stanford University in California. She has exhibited within India and internationally, including the Whitechapel Gallery, London; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University; Philadelphia Museum of Art; and National Gallery of Art, Warsaw. Her work is in the collections of prominent North American and Indian institutions, including the Freer and Sackler Galleries of Art in Washington, DC, National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, and Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland. In 2011, she was awarded the Grange Prize, Canada's foremost award for photography.