Sanket Jain is an independent journalist and documentary photographer based in Western India’s Maharashtra state. Sanket’s work has been featured in over 35 publications, including MIT Technology Review, Devex, Wired, Telegraph, Thomson Reuters Foundation, The Nation, British Medical Journal, Verge, USA Today, Progressive Magazine and others. He was the winner of the 2025 Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications. He was awarded an honorable mention for the 2026 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award, which recognized a Live Science article and three others that addressed the impacts of air pollution and extreme heat on physical and mental health.