I have had an abiding love of photography, as far back as I can remember. While still in school, I began experimenting with a box camera; a present that my parents had received for their wedding. It was in college, that I got more passionate about photography and learned to develop films and make prints the old-fashioned way, using enlargers. The internet is an excellent source of information. Whe
n I have a camera in hand, and I raise my eyes to the viewfinder, I get totally lost in my own world. The feeling of having captured a ‘keeper’ is a high in itself. My genres of interest are Fine Art, Architecture, Landscape and Travel. Exhibitions: My first solo exhibition 'Glimpses' at the Durbar Hall, Kochi, India in April, 2016 received an excellent response. I was consequently invited to display my works under the auspices of the Annual Soorya Arts Festival at the Lalitha Kala Academy Auditorium, Thiruvananthapuram, India in Dec 2016. Awards won in International Competitions:
1. Focus Color Photography Contest 2023 : Honorable Mention
2. One Eyeland Top 100 Photographers 2022 : # 4 Ranking
3. One Eyeland Photography Awards 2022 Amateur Photographer of the Year : Silver Award with 11 Bronze and 13 Finalist Awards
4. One Eyeland World's Top 10 Fine Art Photographers 2022 : World Rank #3: India Rank #1: Gold Awards-2, Bronze Awards-15, Finalists- 13
5. Budapest International Foto Awards (BIFA) 2022 : Honorable Mention
6. One Eyeland Awards 2021 : 5 Bronze and 10 Finalist Awards
7. Architecture Photography Masterprize (APMP) 2021 : One Best of Best, Two Category Winners and 5 Honorable Mentions
8. International Photo Awards (IPA ) 2021 : Two Honorable Mentions
9. Moscow International Foto Awards (MIFA) 2021 : One Gold, One Silver, Two Bronze and Three Honorable Mentions.
10. Budapest International Foto Awards (BIFA) 2021 : One Honorable Mention
11. Fine Art Photography Awards (FAPA) 2021/2022 : 6 Nominations
12. Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA) 2021 : One Bronze, 2 Honorable Mentions and 5 Official Selections
13. Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA) 2020 : One Gold and 2 Honorable Mentions.
14. International Photo Awards (IPA ) 2020 : 2nd Place Award and 17 Honorable Mentions.
15. Fine Art Photography Awards (FAPA) 2020/2021 : 3rd Place Award and 14 Nomination
16. The Epson Pano Awards 2020 : One Silver and three Bronze Awards
17. Budapest International Foto Awards (BIFA) 2020 : Three Bronze Awards and One Honorable Mention
Publications:
1. Cover photo and featured in the "Photoshop User Magazine" published by Kelby One.
2. Featured in ‘Impressive Architecture Photography at the 2021 Moscow International Foto Awards article at the Moscow Foto Awards site.
3. Image selected for the BIFA 2022 Awards Categories page.
4. Image selected for cover photo for the Budapest International Foto Award (BIFA) 2021 competition publicity material.
5. Four images were selected for the ‘Around the World’ section of the erstwhile online Hasselblad bulletin.
6. Image appeared in ‘The RPS in India’ section of DIGIT magazine by the Royal Photographic Society.
7. Image appeared in ‘Windows of the World Exhibition 2021’ by the Royal Photographic Society.
8. Over 250 images selected by PhotoVogue, Italy for their site.
9. Four images chosen by PhotoVogue to adorn their ‘Best of’ Section.
10. Images Selected for curation and Awarded at 1x site.