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Renaud Philippe Photography – French Photojournalist

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Renaud Philippe is a French freelance photojournalist based in Quebec City, Canada. He is co-founder of Stigmat Photo -  A Photojournalism Agency . After getting a degree in journalism, he fell in love with India and the Himalayan regions where he has traveled several times. Renaud is deeply determined to follow his way and to make his pictures become a tool to awaken the collective conscience on social issues.
His work has appeared in publications including MacLean’s, Canadian Geographic, Mare magazine, Global Post, Le Figaroand Days Japan.

Rajiv Kapoor Photography

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Rajiv Kapoor was born in Mumbai, India, and has lived in Ireland and the United States. Formally educated in business and marketing, he pursues photography while maintaining a corporate career. His work is mainly focused on sociopolitical issues and explores a stream of life amidst conflict.

His current project, Paradoxes of Living on Holy Land: Photographs from Jerusalem and West Bank, opened at the Ver(a)rt Gallery in Seattle in 2010 and was also part of the 2010 Seattle Sabeel Conference, an Israeli-Palestinian peace conference. Given the strength of his work, he was asked to be a speaker on the hidden costs of occupation.

He took on photography to develop a better understanding of the world we live in. His first project, Portrait of Nepal in 2008, was shown at the Kirkland Center for Performing Arts in Washington State. He has also worked with the non-profit Community Voice Mail to challenge the stereotypes of what a homeless person is and his images were published in an online humanitarian magazine called NEED. He has taken workshops with Magnum photographers Alex Webb and Susan Meiselas and is an active member of the Photographic Center Northwest.

Tengku Bahar – Photographer and Photo Editor

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Tengku Bahar, known by his peers as Badris, is a New Delhi-based photographer and photo editor. Time, Newsweek, Le Monde, International Herald Tribune, the New York Times and the Washington Post have published his images.

Following his Visual Anthropology degree from the University of Virginia (USA), Badris photographed for newspapers in Virginia and Texas before pursuing personal projects in northern India.

He covered the December 2004 tsunami in his home country Malaysia for Agence France-Presse (AFP) and a year later was promoted to chief photographer in the capital Kuala Lumpur.

He currently edits on the AFP South Asia Photo Desk, overseeing production from India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and the Maldives.

Sanjay Austa Photography – Diverse Hues

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Sanjay Austa studied English literature in college and started out as a journalist without a clear writing mandate. So he got an opportunity to cover a range of issues (and non-issues) ranging from socialite evenings to socially and culturally relevant stories.  He wrote about politicians and prostitutes. About writers and vamps. Good samaritans and criminals. About triumphs and failures and joys and tragedies.

The switch to photography was gradual. His photographs and his choice of subjects however reflect his journalistic pedigree. His first assignment took him on an adventurous two-month expedition to Kanchenjunga, where unshaved and unbathed for that duration, he documented the Indian Army’s climb to the summit. Since then he dabbled in all forms of photography. But he reserves a special liking for photo-essays on different human-interest issues. These are published regularly in the Indian and the International Media. His photo-essay on the 1984 anti-Sikh Delhi riots was exhibited in California by various human rights groups. More recently he has done four picture books on four different Indian Monuments for Penguin Books.

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.