At 27, André J. Fanthome was the youngest photographer to receive the National Academy Award for Visual Art from the National Lalitkala Academy. A decade later, he is certainly not resting on his past laurels.
All in good time
My favorite and possibly the most important work so far happened at the most challenging time of my life. Just about a decade ago, due to an acute slip disk injury that left my left leg quite useless, I was confined to a flat in Gurgaon. The closest I got to the active outdoors was watching kids play in the park below my balcony. I’ve always been in love with light and shadow play, and somehow I guess the movement of the shadows as the sun rose and set registered on my mind. I didn’t really compose the photography in my mind prior to taking it. Based on the orientation of the sun I could just see the image come together and so the next day I put the camera on a tripod and got the two shots I had seen to create Samay, my all-time favorite work.
Lure of the camera
Photography for me began long before I held a camera! I grew up in an isolated tiny village in Eastern Bhutan where cars were a novelty. No TV, phone, or mobile, but what we did have was a huge library at the college where my parents taught. My father would make it a point to constantly supply me with a host of National Geographic magazines and other pictorial books on animals and even though there was no talk of a camera, I think this is where it all started.
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A Legacy Continues
Leveraging the success of his family's export business, Naman Jain is focusing on creating a retail presence in India
Creating KAIRA
Long fascinated by Indian fabric, Nikita Gupta has launched an attractive line of contemporary apparel in traditional block prints
Stories faces tell
Aditya Narula dabbled in various vocations before he realized portraiture was the best way to express the fascinating complexities of the people he encountered along the way
time tested DESIGN
Surrounded by art and architecture as a child, Sarah Sham went on to take the family antiques business in a new direction through her interior design venture
DANGEROUSLY DELICATE
Kavya Potluri's attention to minute detail is what sets her intricate and unconventional jewelry apart
music as muse
A multidisplinary visual artist, Aaron Pinto, also known as Kidsquidy, has had an interesting journey that started with MTV and has him now working on everything from music videos to stage design
DEVELOPING A DISCOURSE
Documentary photographer Taha Ahmad believes his work has a greater purpose than merely being admired by a select audience for its esthetic value. It's when people are able to see the underside of society and understand the prevailing social injustice that the work tries to reveal that it is truly worthwhile.
Tiny little Stories
Creating miniature worlds allows Ruchika Nambiar to continue to play childlike games of make-believe
The Richness Of Handmade
Amit Vijaya and Richard Pandav are committed to bringing together many hands and hearts through their clothing label ‘amrich’
The perfect balance
Aniruddh Mehta is as much graphic designer as visual artist, and he tries to do justice to both through his work at Studio Bigfat