Sustenance is a series of Documentary photographs Madahar produced while studying in the USA. The images of birds in their habitat where taken form the balcony of the apartment where Madahar was staying in Massachusetts. A similarity might be drawn between these images and those of Jill Cole’s series ‘Between hear and there’. Images where taken on a nature reserve within and army garrison, Cole’s images document a conservation project involving the capture and identification of birds. Both Madahar’s and Cole’s series can be seen as reflecting on issues of home and belonging, both using as mediator simpler creatures. Madahar watching the bird feeder just bejond her balcony, Cole looking into the nuances of army life hear in briten from the inside of the army garrison.