Tejal Kawachi is a visual artist and photographer whose practice moves between documentary and personal narrative, using photography, installation, and print to explore identity, belonging, and memory. She approaches photography as a method of inquiry rather than simple representation, examining how individual and collective identities are constructed through place, labor, tradition, and relationships over time.

Rooted in fieldwork and lived experience, her projects ask how identity is built, inherited, and renegotiated across shifting homes, cities, and states of dependence, reflecting a broader concern with urban transformation, migration, and everyday life. Across her practice, she is concerned with documentation as a form of critical engagement; one that challenges assumptions about who and what is deemed worthy of attention, situating individual narratives within larger historical and social contexts.