Barkat is a photographer born in the UK to Indian parents, working across places, histories, and quiet thresholds of belonging. Holding a BA in Economics and a BFA from Tufts University, her practice emerged as a way to navigate memory, distance, and belonging through image-making. Her ongoing project, Underwood, traces the shifting idea of home—how it fractures, endures, and rebuilds itself under the weight of familial ties. Informed by a layered cultural inheritance, Barkat’s work lingers in the quiet complexities of people and the unseen forms of emotional suffering. Each portrait becomes both a conversation and an excavation, where personal histories and visual language converge—revealing what remains, tender and unspoken, in the pause between.