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Salman Usmani – Advertising and Commercial Photography

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Salman is an Advertising / Commercial Photographer, based in India. He has worked with Tehelka, an Indian weekly. Earlier he was with IndiaPicture.  Salman has also worked on documentary films and a book on photography.

Rupinder Khullar – Capturing India

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Rupinder Khullar has been clicking pictures with his prized Nikon ever since he was a teenager. Living amidst the scenic beauty of Uttaranchal’s capital Dehradun, he inherited this passion from his hobbyist photographer father, whom he often accompanied on his travels in the hills.

A leading travel photographer for four decades, Rupinder Khullar has captured India’s art, architecture, cities, religions, people and natural wonders. His arresting and wide ranging body of travel photography has been published in many books and publications. Among them 1001 Images of Taj Mahal – A Great Wonder of the World, Splendours of Rajasthan, Enchanting India, Flowering trees, Shrubs and Climbers of India, Kashmir: A Pageant of Seasons, Delhi, Agra and Jaipur, Divine Love-Images of Inner Joy: His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and Sri Harimandar Sahib have been widely appreciated. He currently resides in New Delhi, with his family.

Prarthana Modi – The “Indecisive Moment”

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Creativity can be described as the ability to see the extraordinary in ordinary situations. This power of observation takes photography one-step ahead of the decisive moment. It is not always about the perfect moment; rather it is about leaving scope to the imagination of the viewer and giving photography an edge as an art form by going more towards the abstract and the unseen. This approach to photography is called the “Indecisive Moment”. Prarthana uses this indirect approach to shoot her images. They are moments that are abstract, that have something to narrate, and some thing to contemplate over. “The Indecisive Moment” is a glimpse of the world as Prarthana sees it. The images show a sense of freedom in her approach towards the subjects. They are bereft of any pressure from the outside world, be it in technique or in composition.

Prarthana Modi is a photographer based in New Delhi, India. She studied management and systems design after which she worked in the telecommunications industry for ten years before giving it up to pursue photography. She started with foundation courses in photography from St. Martins School of Art and Design, London and then went on to study at The School of Black & White Photography, London. However, she is mostly self-taught and self-motivated. Prarthana captures all her images on black & white film and all the prints are hand printed on bromide.

Neeraj Mahajan Photography

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Neeraj Mahajan is an advertising and commercial photographer based in Delhi. Apart from his commercial work, Neeraj has shot a lot of documentary works also. His website is a reflection of his two distinctly different body of works.

Portfolio website for a Photo-Journalist – Essaying India’s layered realities

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In the span of less than a decade, Mustafa Quraishi has cut a swift and salient furrow from being an envied, and often feared, paparazzo to a diligent essayist of India’s layered realities, a photographer possessed of a thinking eye and a mind that can see.

Mustafa’s air of casual languor can often leave you with the impression that he is no more than merely twiddling with expensive toys. But very often that’s just part of a keen professional’s act – unhurried, unobtrusive grace is probably a more apt description of Mustafa on the job.

As a boy he dreamed of flying choppers for the Indian Army, but Mustafa discovered his real calling as early as his late teens. At 18, he took an internship in news photography at the Delhi offices of The Indian Express and at 30, the thought of looking back hasn’t struck the still boyish Mustafa.

After five rich and eventful years at the Express, Mustafa joined the Associated Press and moved down South to Hyderabad, one of the more happening state capitals of India. It was while he was in Andhra Pradesh that he began documenting the world of India’s ultra leftwing Maoists who have been running a armed insurgency against the State from their vast jungle bases in Central and South India. It is while working on the underground Maoists in the jungles of Andhra Pradesh that the thought of documenting the movement and its lives and faces through an extended photo-essay struck Mustafa. It was a project that would not only land him a prestigious grant from the National Media Foundation in 2008, but also become an engrossing personal passion. Since then, Mustafa has made several, and often perilous, journeys to the remote and inaccessible heart of the Maoist struggle to put together a rare and singlular photo archive on a subject that currently occupies centrestage in India./

But Mustafa’s work has taken him to other ports of action and human tragedy — the Asian tsunami of 2004, the serial bombings in Delhi in 2008, the rapturous overthrow of the Nepali monarchy. His work from such flashpoints has found place in prestigious publications like The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, Newsweek, GEO magazine and, of course, a string of big-ticket Indian newspapers, magazines and exhibitions.

He works out of Delhi, where he lives with wife Safia. When he is not looking like a camera guerilla – a dozen lenses strung round his waist, bandolier-like, Mustafa mostly to be found asleep or washing his zealously kept SUV.

Ixint – Shooting wildlife on the brink of extinction

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Ixint Studios specializes in nature, wildlife and travel photography from around the world. Paul Ixint, the creative force behind the studio is an avid nature lover and a wildlife photographer. Paul has travelled worldwide to capture images of wildlife that are on the brink of extinction. He hopes that his images will spread the message of conservation as well as a love for all living creatures on earth.

Anne Smith Photography – Shooting the Divas

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Annie Smith was born and raised in upstate New York and now lives and works in NYC. From her Ferry Studios, she has created many memorable fashion and beauty images. Annie has worked with prestigious and demanding clients all over New York. She has also authored a book on the modeling industry.

1001 Images of Taj Mahal – A book that captures Taj as never before

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The book – 1001 Images of Taj Mahal by Rupinder Khullar is a culmination of two decades of relentless work.

Enamoured by Taj’s pristine beauty and everchanging quicksilver quality, Rupinder Khullar has captured this magnificent mausoleum from every conceivable angle, in different seasons of the year and at various times of the day. Ever responsive to faint shifts of light, to the play of clouds and the drama of sunrise and sunset, Taj Mahal continues to entrance visitors regardless of how often they visit this monument, built by a great Mughal monarch for his wife.

As someone who has been photographing the Taj for so many years, Rupinder Khullar shares with us his
knowledge of its architecture and the arts that went into its embellishment, in this splendid celebration of one of the
world’s greatest monuments.