Bikaneri Oon is a photographic documentation of Asia’s largest wool mandi and the surrounding villages of Bikaner, Rajasthan.

I arrived before the market fully settled in, the auctions began and the ground was already covered in wool, sorted into piles of type, quality and the origin, making sense to the ones that gathered around. Ranging from large varieties of desi oon to imports from far across the world, some of the wool did not linger around for long. Bid, bought and moved to units in the city that wash and clean it, and mills that spin it into yarn. Some of it moved further into nearby villages where communities of spinners hand-spun in varied ways. This is a series that came together through multiple people involved with a single material that moves between spaces and shifts its character each time it changes hands.

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Bikaner, Rajasthan, India.