Barkat is a photographer born in the UK to Indian parents, working between places, histories, and the spaces in between. With a BA in Economics and a BFA from Tufts University, her practice began as a way to explore memory, distance, and belonging through images. Her ongoing project, Underwood, traces the idea of home—how it shifts, fractures, and rebuilds itself over time through the weight of familial ties. Shaped by a layered cultural background, Barkat’s work lingers on the quiet complexities of people and the unseen ways emotional suffering takes form. Each portrait becomes both a conversation and an excavation—where personal histories meet the visual, and something shared holds in the space between.