All of us view the world differently. There are as many perspectives as there are people on the planet. Photography has made it easier to view these myriad perspectives. Photography, which is now universal, has proved to be our best friend. It had given us the gift of capturing memories, and somehow making it tangible, a living proof. The eyes behind the camera lenses bring out unique essence and elements of whatever they capture.

All photographers are obviously not the same. While some photograph landscapes and the nature, others photograph portraits, humans, city, emotions or inanimate objects. Nonetheless, each photograph has its own story and its own history. Here we present some traveller photographers, who bring the immersive and expansive stories of different cities and states of India!

Pratik Warkhade

The white winter landscape is serene, calm and radiates an incomprehensible beauty. Pratik Warkhade, a traveller who spends most of his time in the snowy mountains and ice covered cone trees, photographs these delightful sceneries. Apart from the snow scapes, Pratik Warkhade’s photography also captures many angles of the rocky mountains and hills, the refreshing nature of the twisted turning lands and other flat landscapes.

Vaibhav Saxena

Vaibhav Saxena, with his travel hat on, is always on a move from one city to the next, from one town to the next. His deep admiration and love for the hills and the mountains, snow, and the clouds is vivid in the photographs that he clicks. Vaibhav Saxena captures the road ahead, and his distinctive eye takes you along to the myriad places he visits.

Jaydip Bhesaniya

Jaydip Bhesaniya, living with the motto of ‘doing what I love’, is bringing to the table unrealistic shots and captures. One will be left stunned and in awe of how Jaydip photographs these landscapes. His aerial shots are even more fascinating! The drone shots have a certain ‘Jaydip Bhesaniya’ perspective to them, delivering a distinct angle, which definitely feels like that particular space got more to speak about itself now.

Sanket Joshi

Do you want to visit Mumbai right at this moment? Sanket Joshi got you covered! A photographer by heart, Sanket Joshi captures all the colours of the city of dreams. His photography is a proof that travelling Mumbai through his eyes is an experience worth exploring. Sanket captures all the highs and lows of the urban city. His photographs are brimmed with stories, life, hopes, love and dreams. You only have to look closer.

Harshit Pallav

The next city photographer that you have to check out is Harshit Pallav. Majorly photographing Varanasi, Patna and Delhi, he’s proved his eye for capturing the liveliness of the cities. Varanasi, one of the many sacred cities of India, is always bustling with rituals, laughters and prayers. Harshit Pallav’s camera captures this vivacity and vigour with passion. Many of his drone shots depict how alive the city of Varanasi is.

Aarohan Tiwari

Aarohan Tiwari captures the vitality and vibrance of the cities and its people with his camera. He has got the eyes for the multitude of stories of the urban spaces and how multiple lives unfold amidst these roads and walls. His photography captures all the colours these cities have to offer.

Shantha Kumar

Shantha Kumar is a photographer, a filmmaker and a colourist. Drone shots are his forte. He captures beaches, cities, monuments, buildings and people from a distance, and brings their stories to us. Shantha Kumar’s aerial photographs flow with a density which is stunning to look at!

Photography is a way to capture an instant in a frame for a long time. A way to show the world, the way you see it. While the world fleets, pictures remain stagnant and constant in the revolving world. Preserving the beauty of Indian culture, architecture, people and the triviality of life. We present some of the photographers who have been making a difference and encouraging the community by making it more accessible and easy to learn.  A set of photographs representing the cultural beauty and various landscapes around the country. 

Rishi Raj 

Captured in a dynamic stillness forever, the beauty of a dancer and their movements is accentuated by Rishi. Through lenses, he takes different forms of dancers mostly traditional classical ones. The expressions depicted in these pictures show authenticity and passion towards dancing. Rishi often uses nature’s scenic background showing a contrasting change. Rishi’s photography is appealing to the eyes beautifully showing the movements in their attire. The way he edits the picture, keeping the photos dancer centric captivates you and lets you for once embrace the beauty dance depicts. He himself being a Bharatnatyam dancer aces at showing his skills as well as presenting more perspectival dancers through his photography.  

Siddhartha Joshi 

Beauty lies in the lenses of the beholder, Siddhartha Joshi definitely proves it. Exploring the world around him as a travel blogger, he presents different locations around India. Dealing with the cultural, festive, architecture, people and seasons, he’s got everything to represent and present the diversity that India holds. Joshi’s reels on Instagram paired with beautiful audio are a treat to the eyes with clarity and shows the way he sees the world and allows us to have a glance at it. 

Zaid  Salman 

Salman goes by the name ‘yourworldmylens’ on Instagram, an apt title for the work he does. His absolutely innovative techniques to capture the scenic beauty leave you awe-struck. The technique and creativity he uses to show the world through reflections and hoops with a little help from editing. Make the real-world look unrealistic and dream-like. Showing the different appreciated architecture of India, there is so much diversity to divert our vision and see the world through his portrayal and photography. Covering almost all the well-known tourist locations in India, he manages to show the dynamic beauty that history has bestowed upon us. A commendable photographer with a skill set, one should definitely learn from. 

Rohit Sharma 

Rohit Sharma’s photography is simplistic and clean if put in words. His work shows his sheer skills to click a motion and freeze in a frame for the rest of time for the world to see. Showing some beautiful silhouette pictures of scenic farm locations to coins, he delivers a varied range of photo sets for his Instagram feed. Sharma indulges in object photography where his photos are centric on various articles like electronic gadgets. His feeds remain dominant with the dusk or dawn pictures, with beautiful sun rays cascading down or retreating. 

Photography is the essence of capturing the time, if not halting it. The very snapshots we capture in our handy mobile phones, the brief moments of our lives that we wish to remember, the smiles we would like to see again, or simply encapsulate our beautiful surroundings, and the people, in order to keep them with us for the longest time to come. Photographers have an eye to catch what the eyes cannot see. Painting it with their unique perceptions, they bring the distinctive, the quirky, the extraordinary and the noteworthy in front of us. Here are some photographers that you must check out. 

Baban Photography

Baban is a West Bengal based photographer. Photographing landscapes and the everyday moments of life, he is bringing a refreshing angle to the significance of life. His lens brings the very beauty in our so-called “mundane” lives and makes us wonder about the different ways in which we all live. Travelling from one city to another, Baban is also lending his creative eyes to us. The deserted streets, the several lakes, the cloud and the scattered clouds, nothing escapes Baban’s lens. 

Anindya Das

Anindya Das is a landscape photographer, capturing more particularly the lands and sceneries of India and Canada. A solo traveller, he moves around different lands, and photographs the myriads of elements: trees, waterfalls, valleys, skies, etc. Anindya promises you exuberance oozing out of every of shutter click he makes. He brings the many landscapes in all their hues and glory, inspiring us to see the beyond.

Yash Chokshi

Yash Chokshi is a cityscape photographer! He is based in Mumbai. Taking his camera, and visiting the urban-ness and the concreteness of the city life, he snapshots his way through the meandering roads and streets. The buildings, the cars, the traffic, people and the crowd, Yash’s photography so effortlessly brings the vibrancy of an ever fast running city life. His many angles and perceptions bring us to view the city through different eyes. He captures the many secrets and mysteries the urban life carries with itself. 

Surbhi Kaushik

Surbhi Kaushik is a traveller, and a landscape photographer based in Bangalore. Walking around with her camera, Surbhi brings a refreshing, realistic, and an unparalleled perspective to everything she sees. Her keen eyes wander the unexplored elements of the places she visits, and the enigmas she comes across. Truly, through the eyes of Surbhi Kaushik, the world and its beauty becomes so transparent, vivid and enthralling.

Immensely captivating pictures of nature, capturing the momentary essence of time and scenic beauty. A memory, a glance trapped in a single frame with absolutely no way to alter it but only holding allowing individual input and the way to enthrall the viewer. Photography easily becomes a vision captured from the photographer’s perspective and presenting the world, the way they see the world which is ambiguously open to all the view the scenic seizure through their eyes. Lenses truly unveil a sight that sometimes remains unnoticed, showing and accentuating every fibre of mediocre sight the photographer captures and levitates the beauty in it  Set of nature photography by photographers,  to truly appreciate the nature and the core of diving in it through their lenses. 

Prabir Das 

Prabir captures the dazzling and spectacular rays of dawn and dusk cascading down and vibrant calm green fields. The way he works with reflections and silhouettes makes the picture look so appealing almost unreal. His technique of framing his vision, highlights the largeness and the ethereal magical essence of clouds, sheltering the world within. Prabir’s editing further brings out all the hues of nature and makes it so vibrant, the sun in its entirety, the rays making the colours of nature emerge in an enchanting way completely luring the audience. Prabir’s photography emphasises the stillness of nature and magnifies the beauty in its simplicity especially getting the rural beauty. 

Jeet Khagram 

A colossal image with a view enlarged, presenting a picture in massivity of its nature. Photographs with a layer of haze provide a panoramic view. Jeet’s editing presents the dynamic essence of every fibre of nature. Capturing the view from all over the world ranging from deserts of Nubra Valley, capped mountains in Tawang, and Vishansar Lake to thunderstorms in Mumbai, encapsulates the moments and leaves the viewers fascinated. Jeet as he says, ‘Look deep into nature!’, definitely gives you an outlook like never before.

Rajat Sharma 

Live moments of the simplicity of thriving life are vividly present in Rajat’s photography. A view of poverty on the streets or the joy in a smiling boy’s eye. He captures the range of emotions and feeling through a picture, preserved in stillness for a long time. The frame also comprising the divinity of nature he seizes through his lenses, leaves an everlasting impact almost extending the life of existence. Rajat captures the simplicity and makes it almost lucid, diverting attention to little things. The presentation of mountains in their full significance and magnificence will not fail to make you ponder the beauty that surrounds us. 

Dipak Gangurde 

The misty clouds hovering over the enormous fields and hills, and descending sun rays make the photographs almost look unreal. Varieties of animals of all kinds in their natural habitat also add to Dipak’s interest. The absolute emotions portrayed through humans in his frames appear so up close and real, never fail to make you a little more aware of your surroundings and appreciate it more. Dipak’s photography is a sheer dedication towards the love we all feel towards nature and only instils the idea for us to go beyond our roads and find a different destination on its own. 

Ansel Adams very rightly said, “Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.” Pressing the shutter of the camera isn’t simply photography. What photographers bring to the table is mystifying and enigmatic. Their eyes catch what others might not. A blue ocean means different things to different people. A photographer will freeze that moment through their camera in different ways than one. Maybe, that is the art of living and of understanding. In this light, we present some passionate photographers of India and their comprehensive collection, narrating a plethora of stories and making memories alive. 

Raghu Rai

Photographer Raghu Rai started snapshotting the corners of life at the age of 23, in 1965. Sensitive to the hustle bustle of life around, the simplicity in the moments, and the socio-political causes, Raghu Rai has photographed some of the most monumental images and pictures ever. He is a recipient of the Padmashree, awarded for his sincere work on the Bangladeshi refugees, the war and its surrender. His photography covers all opposites, be it his body of work on the tragedy of Bhopal or capturing the colourful liveliness of the city of Varanasi. 

Dayanita Singh

Dayanita Singh describes herself as a ‘bookmaker who works with photography.’ She is famous for her portraits of the urban elites and the middle class. Singh uses sequences of photographs to narrate stories and poetic possibilities behind each photography. Primarily working with black and white portraits, however, recently Dayanita Singh has been adding colours to her photography, to understand spaces in different hues and shadows.

Pablo Bartholomew

Born in New Delhi, Pablo Bartholomew first started photography at the age of sixteen after learning the basics of photography from his father. He has been interested in stories of the people, and through his keen eye and camera, he has relentlessly brought extensive exhibitions. One of his exhibitions, ‘The Nagas’, is a classic example of his brilliancy. Journeying in and around remote villages and uphills, Pablo photographed some crucial elements of the Nagas cultures, some which you might not find today.

Sooni Taraporevala

Sooni Taraporevala is an internationally acclaimed screenwriter and filmmaker. She has written screenplays for well reputed studios—Disney, Warner Brothers, HBO, Universal, etc. Based in Mumbai, Sooni started her career as a still photographer. Over the years, she has showcased multiple photo exhibitions. One of her most renowned photograph exhibitions has been on Parsis, titled, ‘Parsis: the Zoroastrians of India–A Photographic Journey’ The work is a result of almost 20 years, which gives us a deep glimpse into the lives of the Zoroastrian community in India. Sooni Taraporevala’s trained eyes have offered us a documentary on the Parsi community through her sequences of her photographs.

Bharath Ramamruthan

Bharath Ramamruthan is India’s leading architectural, interior and travel photographer. He commenced his professional photography in 1988 and since then has delivered prolific work on India and its stupefying architecture. His eagle-eyes are sensitive to not only the structures of the architect but also its space, soul, spirit, shadows and hues. His architectural training has given him more insight into capturing the fine details and its aesthetic sensibilities.