Abeer Gupta is currently the director of the Achi Association India in New Delhi and Leh. He has directed several documentary films and curated art, education and community media projects. His research is based in the western Himalayas, in Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir around oral histories, material cultures, and visual archives. His publications include, The Visual and Material Culture of Islam in Ladakh (2014), Discovering the Self and Others in Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh (Sage, 2014), A Sense of Place: Islam in the Western Himalaya (Marg, 2018), Material culture and art practice in Ladakh: notes from a collaborative art project, in Arts in the Margins of World Encounters, (Vernon Press, 2021) and Constructing Traditions: The Jamdani within Exhibition Practice of Handicrafts in Projects / Processes, (Serendipity Arts Festival, 2021).