Simon King is a documentary photographer based in London. He works on long-form, narrative-driven projects about communities and culture, and also makes more abstract, experimental work on metaphysical themes. He publishes sequenced work as books and zines, and single images as darkroom silver gelatin prints. He teaches at UAL and at Leica Akademie UK.
His photo essay Whispers and Squeaks was made at the Karni Mata Temple in Deshnoke, India, across two visits in 2024, one at the start of the year and one near the end. The essay looks at the daily coexistence of people and the temple's rats. King describes his wider work in India as long term, and says it will take many years of revisiting places.
