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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.

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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.