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People have been using photography for a long time now, with the original intention of documenting reality and keeping memories. While people have been documenting buildings for various reasons since the beginning of civilization, architectural photography is a relatively new phenomenon. Even the process of training the camera specifically on architecture has evolved—from using buildings as backdrops to making them the main subjects of striking imagery.

This architectural photography special issue of Chiiz presents the work of brilliant photographers who are constantly proving their mettle in this vibrant field of photography. Anand Narvekar has some astounding architectural photographs to show. Akira Takaue manifests ‘art in architecture’ with his unique photographs with a classical touch.

Also featuring is the dream team Ankita Asthana & Akash Agarwal from WeddingNama, whose photographs are giving us some serious wedding photography goals. The landscapes by Gurinder Osan are part of brilliant narrative that brings the spirit of mountains alive in front of our eyes.

Last but not the least is the Chiiz Gallery featuring the best of chiiz.com and the winners of PCOI Contest.

When referring to ideals and perfection, people make conflicting comparisons. We often say that something artificial is so perfect that it almost seems real, whereas nearly perfect experience is commonly described as almost unreal or dreamlike.

Architecture is a discipline that works with both terms, and reflects on the real and the elusive simultaneously. Analogously, architecture can be compared to the image of architecture.

What is it, really, that a photographer wants to accomplish, when displaying architecture? Is (s)he trying to report on architecture and document its appearance, or trying to use the visuals to point out immaterial features? Is architecture used as a frame for events, and is it responsible for creating certain atmosphere and provoking feelings? Find out in this issue of Chiiz Vol. 30: Architectural Photography Special.

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Akira Takaue is a certified architect, taking an active role as a professional architectural photographer, photography curator, and author, working on engineering & art projects as well as being an international award-winning fine art photographer. Most recently, he held solo and joint photo exhibitions in Tokyo, published various articles in domestic and international photography magazines and is currently advising art galleries. His lectures cover the mechanics of architecture, bridge structures, aesthetic theories of architecture and fine art photography in educational institutes, colleges and academic conferences.

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Silver World Akshardham Sony A6000 50mm F/7.1 1/60 ISO200

Meaningful Cells Nikon D700 230mm F/11 1/250 ISO200

Ethereal Landmark Nikon V11 10mm F/8 1/4 ISO100

Hopeful Sky Nikon D810 14mm F/8 1/125 ISO64

Modern Vietnam Nikon D700 110mm F/9 1/250 ISO110

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Sunset Over Dodger Stadium Nikon D810 10mm F/5 1/400 ISO200

Walt Disney Concert Hall Nikon D810 35mm F/5.6 15 ISO100

Ricky Fabrizio was born in Montreal and moved to Los Angeles as a child. Growing up, he would always notice the beauty in light. Not realizing, that was the photographer in him appreciating a beautiful moment that would later turn into a beautiful photograph.

He realized his passion for capturing light when he got an iPhone and started shooting everything from landscape to friends. He caught the photo bug sand bought a camera. Five years down the line and photography has taken him places he never thought possible. His goal is to have people feel something special and transport them to the time and place where his shutter was clicked.

Hollywood Fireworks Nikon D810 200mm F/4 20 ISO400

WeddingNama Ankita & Akash

Happiness is Marrying Your Best Friend Canon Mark IV 67mm F/2.8 1/250 ISO1600

Wife-husband duo Ankita Asthana and Akash Agarwal are experts in wedding photography & filming and co-founded WeddingNama out of passion to document love stories and chronicle the most precious time of a couple’s lives, a.k.a., their wedding! Their passion and undying enthusiasm has helped WeddingNama carve a niche in the Indian wedding industry. While Ankita spends her time to educate and inspire the next generation and is a speaker & panelist at photography conferences, Akash is a tech-enthusiast and has expertise in latest gadgets, equipment and techniques. With their in-house dynamic team of skilled photographers, cinematographers, editors and managers, they strike a perfect balance between stunning contemporary portraiture and photojournalistic storytelling.

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Hitting the Gym Before the Wedding Canon Mark III 35mm F/2.2 1/640 ISO640

Bride’s Lifeline Nikon D5 14mm F/2.8 1/640 ISO100

Two Families United by the Bonds of Marriage Nikon Z7 20mm F/3.2 1/1000 ISO125

Cinerous Vultures Nikon D500 500mm F/7.1 1/1250 ISO400

Using the powerful tool that is photography, Devendra Gogate believes in creating love and awareness about nature and wildlife. Once people start loving something, it becomes easier to talk about conservation, simply because people naturally conserve what they love

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Green Vine Snake Nikon D80 105mm F/2.8 1/125 ISO320

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Vulturine Guinea Fowl Nikon D7000 400mm F/4 1/2000 ISO400

Laughing Zebra Nikon D7000 300mm F/4 1/1600 ISO200

Vermilion Flycatcher Olympus E-M1X 420mm F/5.6 1/2000 ISO1600

Red-headed Woodpecker Olympus E-M1X 420mm F/5.6 1/1000 ISO1600

Ben Knoot is a 23-year-old nature photographer from California. Ben now leads educational and instructive photography tours and workshops for Tropical Birding Tours. Ben’s goal while guiding is to provide a memorable, exciting and successful experience so that other photographers can enjoy photographing Earth’s beauty as much as he does. You can participate in his workshops at tropicalbirding.com

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Striolated ManakinMale Crested Treeswift Olympus E-M1 420mm F/5.6 1/640 ISo3200 Nikon D5500 500mm F/5.6 1/2500 ISO800

Malabar Trogon GildedFemale Flicker Nikon D5500 Canon 1D Mark IV 500mm 910mm F/5.6 1/400 1/320 ISO3200 ISO1000

Anand Narvekar runs a successful medical private practice and has global acclaim for his work in dentistry. He has been a travel addict and an avid photographer since 1996.

His skill and unique work in dentistry affords him the opportunity to travel far and wide, allowing him to view the world through his lens and capture some great shots.His work has been published in leading dental, health, automobile, wildlife, travel and photography magazines, and few of them as cover stories.

Dancing House Hotel, Prague Canon 5D Mark II 29mm F/22 30 ISO100

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Komic Village, Spiti Valley Canon 5D Mark II 35mm F/16 1/330 ISO400

Piazza dei Miracoli , Pisa Canon 5D Mark II 16mm F/13 1/200 ISO100

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Registan, Samarkand Indian Paradise Flycatcher - Female Eye to Eye with the Ghost of the Mountain Canon 5D Mark 18mm 30 ISO1250 ISO100 Nikon D750 420mm F/5.6 1/2500 Canon 5D Mark II IV 24mm F/8F/11 1/250 ISO3200

Registan, Samarkand Canon 5D Mark IV 26mm F/13 30 ISO100

Arc de Triomphe, Paris Canon 5D Mark II 27mm F/22 20 ISO100

SHOT ON SONY ALPHA Andrey Maximov

Andrey Maximov is a self-taught photographer and retoucher currently based in Moscow, Russia. Inspired by the retro wave, cyberpunk, Japanese pop-culture and anime aesthetic, Maximov bring us vibrant street portraits, incredible photos of cosplay artists and urban cityscapes with glowing neon lights. You can find more of his work on Instagram @street_invader 30 TRIGGER

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Sharing Spaces Fernando Guerra

Fernando Guerra is a 49-year-old Portuguese architect turned architectural photographer. A Canon Ambassador, he has been shooting since 1986 when he was just a teen, but it was only in 1999 that he opened his office to dedicate himself exclusively to photography. Based in Lisbon, Guerra travels the world shooting architecture all year.

He uses a Canon 5D R and Canon R with tilt-shift lenses—17mm and 24mm.

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Your photographs have a brilliant element of depth.

Is that a signature technique or just the way you like your architectural photographs to be?

I like the variety. It’s boring to always do the same thing, even when one’s office moves from one place to another every day. I love meeting architects, who, like everyone else, work in different ways. I like to follow their work for years and I like how each has their own style and way of looking at the world. This variety keeps me alert every day. There are no formulas for what I do. Everything I photograph is suggested to me by the work itself. That is the only inspiration. And the depth is always there. Like layers, giving meanings and context. I definitely don’t like to isolate subjects— persons or buildings.

How to you cope? Essentially by working every hour I’m awake. Not stopping for hardly anything and living all of this as if I had to start from square one. Every day. It’s not a new camera or a new drone model that will change what I do or how I do what I do. But they can help.

However, having a business with several employees at a time when all of us are photographers is special. The way to maintain it and make it grow is by working even more.

What are the main challenges you face as an architectural photographer?

Lack of time for personal life. Travelling all the time and having to cope with stress and not only overcoming it, but come home with great photos; and sure, the always changing weather. A photographer is as good as his last job. We can be hired for our career path, but truly on the day of the shoot, that matters relatively little to the client. Only what you do on that day is relevant. Each day is a new beginning for me. No excuses. No egos. No thinking that I’ve earned my pay before taking a single shot. I never do. It has to be a hard process. I’m not saying that you cannot enjoy it- I always try to make it an experience for everyone- but it is a constant search for the perfect image. For perfect communication.

To what extent do you research or investigate a building prior to shooting it?

Nothing. I like to know the scale of the project, but that’s all. It´s the surprise of the first visit that drives me during the session.

Do you find it more challenging/time-consuming to shoot interiors or exteriors? Why? It’s the same. Both are challenging, both times consuming and you need the same attention to detail.

Can you please deconstruct the process of capturing architecture from conceptualizing the shoot to the final product?

The main reason I picked up a camera to take pictures during these past 30 years was simply for the pleasure of feeling connected to something special. A connection to the craft, to people, and to the way it gives me the chance to see new places and hear new stories. It’s a way to exercise my curiosity about places and the world.

And photography is essentially communication.

With my responsibility in conveying a project’s message,

in which often my eyes are solely responsible for how a particular work is seen around the world, the record must be clear and very precise. Noting the changes in color and textures throughout the day. If, on the one hand, the project itself is important, it is also essential in my work to show its surroundings, to contextualize the project in its environment. At the end of a day’s work, I will have photographed the answers to three simple questions: “Where is it?”, “What is it?” and “What is it for?” The objectives are simple, but how to respond to them is complex because so much does not depend on me. Every day of my life, I am in pursuit of the perfect photograph. An image that brings together everything that I want to capture in order to look at it later. The only problem is explaining what I want to capture, as it changes with the seasons. The only thing of which I am certain is that the perfect photo is always rare and does not happen every day. But if it tells the story of a particular moment well, then it is probably perfect in some way and it means that the day’s goal has been accomplished.

Harjeet Singh harjeett@chiiz.com Harjeet Singh is a visual artist by profession and a photographer by passion. A proficient flutist and a creative talent, Harjeet loves to capture candids because he feels capturing the real moments, expressions and catching the subject unaware adds life to his pictures.

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Drony is an aerial photographer based in the small island of Cyprus. He has been involved in photography for the last 15 years but getting a drone in 2018 inspired him to finally publish his work online for the very first time. Following his passion for photography and drones, he flies daily to capture the world from his perspective. You can see more of his work on Instagram @dronyofficial or his website Drony.com Shipwreck of MV Demetrios II Dji Mavic Air 24mm F/2.8 1/120 ISO1000

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The Catwalk Dji Mavic Air 24mm F/2.8 1/100 ISO100

App of the Month SKRWT Category: Photography Rating: 4.2/5 Platform: iOS/ Android Cost: US$ 1.49 Of all the apps available on the App Store for image correction, SKRWT comes pretty high up on the list.

The developers guarantee that this app is the link to high-end mobile photography. But we decided to check it ourselves.

For only US$ 1.49, SKRWT is a pretty budget-friendly app for photographs clicked on the phone – especially since one does not carry a DSLR all the time. SKRWT Now let us come to the central application. Once you won the award for ‘best app of 2014’ on Google Play select an image, you can preview its properties before App Store and has been praised by many other offline importing. All these properties are inclusive of the and online critiques. camera it was shot on and the size, aperture, resolution and shutter speed settings during the shot. This is of Once we acquired the app from the Android App great importance if one has to try and replicate these Store, we realized that the SKRWT has three major settings for another photograph. distribution in functions. The primary one, which the developers call the SKRWT central app, and the other Once imported, you see a range of options on the bar two- MRRW and 4PNTS came along with its updates as under the image. The user interface is pretty simple to in-app extensions. These features, although great for all understand and after seeing a few of these features, kinds of people, are even more useful for architectural it becomes evident that SKRWT is a perfect app for photographers. After using it for a few days, we realized architectural photographers. You can enhance, skew, it’s a boon for those who have to show inanimate distort, correct distortion and crop in all senses and objects at their best. directions. It helps in visualizing the spaces and buildings better and to display them and present them in ways 4PNTS is a great function that allows you to skew that the human eye isn’t able to capture from the ground or stretch the image by holding it from any of its 4 view. corners. This is a great feature to put your image into perspective. It is very useful to stitch images together One of the unique features in the merge feature. It allows for a presentation, or to show any building from a view one to add layers on the image and then merge them that otherwise cannot be taken due to road widths with the original image. One can also stretch the image or building heights, or even in some cases, a lot of horizontally and vertically, mind you, without making the unwanted vehicles or noise from a certain desired image feel like it has been stretched. This is actually very angle. useful to show longer spans of a building, or display how long it is, without panorama.

MRRW is a very simple feature to use. It is simply a mirroring option that mirrors the image from the center.

All in all, it is a really good app and we recommend it Say we have a row of columns, but the image that one to all still object photographers, especially architectural; clicked fails to capture the majestic look. Simply use the because there are a lot of elements and dynamic noise MRRW attribute to mirror it upside down or left to right. that one cannot control in this type of photography; to This option also lets you align the edge of the image. use it and try for yourself.

One can turn the image just like one would do a paper – hold it horizontally, rotate it, lay it flat, or use it as an oblique – all these orientations can be done on the MRRW extension.

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Ruchi Kapoor ruchi@chiiz.com Ruchi Kapoor is an enthusiast and an observer. She makes a note to write down about everything she finds interesting and funny. She practices as an Architect and believes that she can take best photographs of the built environment; which she calls ‘man made art’. She is a realist and dedicates her resources to doing instead of dreaming. This quality of hers is what makes her write about the realities of our world, instead of fiction, and this governs how she perceives others and how others perceive her.

Shoayb Hesham Khattab is an international award-winning photographer with more than 40 accolades to his name. He is currently living and working in the UAE where he came to develop his skills in photography. A successful study of art throughout childhood earned him distinction and awards for his skills in drawing and has whetted his skills in photography as well.

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Movie Review Antonio Gaudí Genre: Documentary IMdB Rating: 7.3/10 Release: 1986 Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes

This film is essentially based on the works of Antonio Gaudi, a Spanish architect, through the eyes of the Japanese director, Hiroshi Teshigahara. The movie uses the premise of architectural photography in it. So, let us first understand what architectural photography means.

Architectural photography is capturing photographs of buildings in their entirety. The pictures must look exquisite and artistic while still showcasing the correct portrayal of the photographic subject. Architectural photography can represent both the interior and the exterior of the buildings in question.

The person about whom the film had been made was no ordinary man. He was an expert in his field and did some really ground-breaking work. Some famous works include Sagrada Família, Casa Milà and Casa Batlló, all of which are located in Barcelona. He was an acclaimed proponent of Catalan Modernism and its influence can be clearly observed in his works. Catalonia is an independent community in Spain that comprises the intersectionality of cultures and influences.

Gaudi’s style was new and unique. He coalesced his life interests and experiences in his designs. The Modernista movement was taking momentum in the latter part of the 19th century and his works which used neo – Gothic art and Oriental design techniques clearly had a style that contributed to the quintessential Modernisme. It had then become a new kind of architecture that used natural forms.

Gaudi was an unconventional architect in many ways.

Unlike other architects, he did not draw elaborate plans of his works and go through them over and over again.

He had his distinct method of creating three dimensional models of the designs. Gaudi’s religious orientation was Roman Catholic and this inspired many of his works. This in turn led to the bestowing of the title of ‘God’s Architect’ on him.

The movie in consideration shows all of this. It shows how his religious inclination influenced his work. The director has created for us a beautiful journey showing what it took to create those buildings. The movie takes one in and out of these architectural marvels so that one can fully grasp the beauty of it and look at the intricacies of its structure.

There is hardly any narration in the movie, which goes on to say that the director wants us to pay close attention

to the details and observe it for ourselves. Through this technique of minimal narration, the director is perhaps prompting us to push our boundaries, think and draw conclusions. Every one of us would have a different viewpoint, a different observation and this is exactly why the documentary has been made. It walks us through the various buildings designed by Gaudi, which includes Casa Vicens, projects for the industrialist Güell (including the Crypt of the Colònia Güell and Park Güell), Casa Batlló, Casa Milà, and Barcelona’s point of interest, the unfinished Templo de La Sagrada Familia.

At points in the documentary there are certain literal dark moments, but that has been done only to give you a break and let you ponder and collect your thoughts, so that you can articulate your opinion once the movie ends. The background music by Toru Takemitsu really adds to the kind of feel that the documentary aims to provide.

While the cinematic shots may come off as a work of an amateur, they are certainly not. It is art and art is not meant to portray perfection. It is meant to showcase the imperfections and leave us to find beauty in it.

Saman Waheed saman@chiiz.com

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Saman Waheed, like all writers, loves writing about each and everything under the sun. An indoor person , she loves to sit back and just travel to another world, lost in her thoughts. She loves the company of books as they take her to places she has never been. She loves to cook and makes good desserts.

Experiencing Built-Environments Cyril Lancelin

Flamingo Ring - DIFC Dubai

Cyril Lancelin is a French artist, born in 1975 in Lyon. Combining technology and art, he envisions sculptures and images, bringing the viewer in his digital world, mixing fiction and reality. He questions the artificial landscape.

Using parametric tools, he utilizes a vocabulary of classical shapes and volumetric spaces essential to create unique structures. In his vision, forms are used at the architectural scale to create experiential art. His work often engages the public in immersive installations, forcing the viewer to question their own relationship towards their built environment.

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Starberry

Installation Spiral Lemon - Madrid Pyramid Shell

Pavilion Sphere

Pyramid Circle

Tell us about your journey as an artist so far.

I posted some of the images I was doing after my work on Instagram. The images got some success; they were realistic images of imaginary art installation or imaginary houses.

Some clients wanted the installation in real, so as everything was drawn in 3D software, I contacted some manufacturers and we started to build them. I decided to quit my architecture job. I am very happy to have entered the art world. I like to work on the spatial experiment.

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tion, I wanted to bring a pop spirit, and more unexpected. It was a great success. Then I used other pop culture elements such as lemons, hula hoops and of course, Flamingos. With an immersive sculpture, for example, there is more experience with the sculpture, as there is a different point-of-view.

Plus, the public likes to take pictures and selfies, they bring some creativity. I always think about the point-of-view, but I am always surprised by some spectators’ pictures with a lot of ideas. The installations require building an artificial landscape.

I can put this in practice in public art or in art galleries as there are fewer constraints here than I am exploring this artificial landscape on a in architecture. I work on images of the built computer before it is built and if it is not built, it or unbuilt project. At the end of each project, should look the same for the final images of the there will always be images left. project. Mixing reality and fiction connect us to our daily lives where the “online” life is taking How would you define your style of photography? more time than our real life.

I like to be simple with complex things. My photography needs to be explicit even when it is a What, according to you, makes a good photograph? thumbnail. That’s why I use pink when I have a A good photograph is the work of a good writblue sky, for example. er who writes a story with images connected in Your work mixes reality and fiction and ques- a photography. tions the artificial landscape. Share the artistic process used to achieve such quality of work.

I use what I call primitives shapes in my installations, such as pyramids, spheres, cube, etc. I started to use some fake melons on an installaPrateek Kashyap prateek@chiiz.com Prateek Kashyap is a travel photographer and he takes his inspiration from the mighty Himalayas, where his passion for photography took a more serious turn. With an eye for photography and a fixation with photographic compositions, Prateek is always on the lookout for innovative frames.

Installation Candy

Old is Gold View from the Window at Le Gras “I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I’m part of it. I didn’t ask to be put here; I’ve been lucky in finding myself here.”

There is a special significance of ‘windows’ in the world of literature and how much can one differentiate between literature and photography when the two of them attempt to not just create something, but to make it as such that it outlives itself and turns out to be true to John Keats’ words- “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” Both literature and photography of any kind and specific to any genre tend to tell a story. The only difference between the two is that in literature, we create visual imageries of whatever meaning we infer from the given words while in a photograph, a visual speaks for itself and makes us formulate some meaning out of it.

In literature, a ‘window’ signifies a person looking out, from a space which is generally confining, towards a world full of endless possibilities, a world full of free air and freedom in it. In photography as well, the subject has a meaning. In this case, our reference is to the ‘window’ from the acclaimed “View from the Window at Le Gras (1826),” an epic moment in the history of photography as it happens to be the first architectural photograph ever taken.

The man behind the lens is responsible not just for freezing this moment but also for inventing a process known as heliography- an invention that took photography to another level- and since then, the field has only positively progressed.

including a tree. There have been numerous attempts by people across the world to either rightly interpret it or improve the quality of the photograph so as to see what moment it actually froze for eternity.

However, they haven’t been able to do so as it definitely wasn’t the most creative photograph ever, but certainly the first one.

What’s even more interesting is that when Niépce showed this photograph to one of his friends, an artist named Francis Bauer, who liked it so much so that he took Niépce to the Royal Society where it was unfortunately rejected due to Niépce’s unwillingness to share the details of the heliography process that he used. After Niépce’s death due to a stroke, the photograph passed on to Bauer. After Bauer’s death, the photograph was suddenly lost to be fortunately found again some fifty years later. The photograph now safely resides in the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre in Texas for its secrets to The man we’re speaking of is a French photographer be unveiled by the advancements in the science of photography.

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce and the place where this photograph was created, rather than captured, As we look at this not-so-appealing photograph, we was Saint-Loup-de-Varennes (France). Born in 1765, during the age of inventions and at the beginning of are reminded of the immeasurable effort that Niépce the Industrial Revolution, Niépce was drawn towards must have put into it in order to develop the first architectural photograph in the world for which we the art of lithography which is a form of printing would never be able to thank him enough. Although done on a smooth surface. His utter determination the picture is black and white, his thoughts must towards creating something new brought to us this have been rainbow-colored as only that can inspire photograph whose story is more beautiful than the one to develop anything that is first of its kind. Truly, photograph itself. this window must have shown endless possibilities to Niépce.

The photograph does not show us beautiful countryside surrounded by all bounties of nature.

Rather, it’s a regular view from the window of a house with a camera looking at other houses in front of it,

Meenal Singh meenal@chiiz.com Meenal loves to connect with people through her writing. She pines for the beauty in nature and is driven towards presenting a beautiful interpretation of it through her words and her passion for photography.

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Andrew Seah is a photographer and nature lover based in Singapore. He is inspired to explore biodiversity and beautiful scenery of the world through a camera and showcase a side of the world many do not know exists.

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Boxer Mantis (Pachymantis Bicingulata) Panasonic G9 60mm F/11 1/200 ISO125

Hoverfly with Cordyceps Nikon D500 105mm F/20 1/160 ISO120

Babumoshai’s Devoted POCO F1 3.94mm F/1.9 1/369 ISO100

Royal Reflection GoPro Hero6 3mm F/2.8 1/500 ISO100

Festive City GoPro Hero6 3mm F/2.8 1/1000 ISO99

Born and brought up in Kolkata, Ananya Das is a 22-year-old Media Graduate student. Likes to document people and their stories and is an Instagram Enthusiast. Her works have been featured by Indian Shutterbugs, Lonely Planet, Street Photography India, Tripoto Community, etc. Exhibited in Calcutta Art Confluence (2017) and Kolkata International Photography Festival (2019). Her work has also been published in the book, The Temporary Calcuttan.

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Drizzle On Motion POCO F1 3.94mm F/1.9 1/309 ISO100

Mostafa Mohamed is a photographer born and raised in Egypt. He first picked up his first camera, a GoPro, at the age of 26 to shoot his very first car with his wife. He started to shoot seriously after he joined the aviation industry and started working as a cabin crew with one of the leading airlines in the Middle East. He is now working as a freelance travel photographer, blogger and often collaborates with brands and businesses for social media content.

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Silicon Oasis HQ inDubai Phantom 4 PRO 8.8mm F/8 1/200 ISO100

Glim Canon 5D Mark III 35mm F/2.2 1/200 ISO125

Sissi Wang, the founder of JustKidi Photography Studio, is a multi-award winning baby photographer. Her studio is an internationally recognized studio and has been named one of the top ten newborn photography studios in Sydney in 2018 and 2019. Being a design-oriented photographer, Sissi likes utilizing home decor ornaments such as flower, baskets, fluffy blankets, etc to create vintage, romantic, and simple styles.

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Little Intellectual Canon 5D Mark III 50mm F/2.8 1/125 ISO100

Meet My Love Canon 5D Mark III 35mm F/1.8 1/200 ISO100

Twinkle Toes Canon 5D Mark III 105mm F/2.8 1/200 ISO100

Mellow Canon 5D Mark III 35mm F/2.5 1/200 ISO200

Golden Leaves Canon 5D Mark III 35mm F/2.2 1/160 ISO800

Vivid Expanse Canon 6D Mark II 70mm F/22 20 ISO50

Shubham Jain is an avid photographer and explorer from Jaipur who started his journey as an inquisitive photographer, observing patterns, people and life during the sophomore year of his college. Being an engineer and a resident of Jaipur, a city known for its rich heritage, he has always been fascinated by architectural figures.

His curiosity towards life, colors and moments has made him travel beyond local purview. Like every journey of growth, he has evolved more as an artist with a sense of love & reverence for heritage architecture, people and culture.

Through his lens and heart, he wishes to capture moments and share his perception. His work has been featured on many offline and online platforms. He is undoubtedly on a mission to deliver globally the beauty that lies in the heritage of India.

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Engraved Poetries Canon 6D Mark II 30mm F/5.6 1/200 ISO200

Beautiful Silence Sony A7M2 16mm F/4 1/1250 ISO100

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Gurinder Osan specializes in photojournalism and landscape photography. He heads the photo team at PTI, India’s premium news agency. Earlier, he led the photo team at Hindustan Times, a national daily, and as a frontline photographer for Associated Press, he was shooting war zones, sports, natural calamities, and humaninterest stories. He has exhaustive work in the Himalayas, traversing as a trained mountaineer and also on a motorcycle.

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A Quiet Morning in Bharatpur Nikon D300 25mm F/5.6 1/40 ISO400 (Panorama stitch from 2 images)

A World in a Lotus Pond Nikon D300 105mm F/3 1/250 ISO200

Roadside Bloom Nikon D300 85mm F/1.8 1/4000 ISO200

After the Rain Nikon D800 25mm F/22 1/200 ISO500 (Panorama stitched from multiple photos)

Banyan Innards Nikon D300 35mm F/2 1/13 ISO200

You seem to dabble in a lot of genres of photography. Which one do you like the most and why?

Landscape photography, specifically of the Himalayas, is where I connect best to my inner self. It is the joy of being in the pristine wilderness, far from the chaos of urban existence, and be able to experience the grace of His creation. Once you add the risks and adrenaline pushing moments of wilderness survival, the package is complete.

However, I haven’t quite gotten my act together to sell my landscape images and hence the need to earn through other genres.

My Pindari Companion Nikon D90 27mm F/9 1/1000 ISO200

You have an affinity with the Himalayas and are a trained mountaineer.Tell us more about this tryst with the mountains.

Woods are Dark and Deep Nikon D800 25mm F/5.6 1/80 ISO800

The Himalayas were love at first sight. I was blessed to have like-minded friends and together we did many treks and motorcycle expeditions, with photography as the core intent. It was much later in life, in fact, I was 37 when I trained as a mountaineer under the NOLS Himalaya Mountaineering course. The reasons were to be able to reach deeper, higher and more remote into the magnificent ranges as up, close and personal as possible; not necessarily to ‘conquer’ them as many loosely describe climbing the mountains. In the early days of no information via the Internet and no access to equipment, I would even stitch my own tent, sleeping bag, rucksack, and waterproof layers, just so that there is no reason to stop me from reaching and surviving in the remotest of places. And when approached with respect and gratitude, whether mountain, wildlife or humans, the results are seldom negative. I believe that it is the mountains that allow you to come there and you have to be deserving enough in terms of whether you see them as an object or a reverential subject.

You have covered the aftermath of natural disasters.

What kind of precautions should photographers take in such conditions?

A photojournalist’s job can take you into the most hostile and adverse situation. It is best to not just be aware of what to do, but more importantly what not to do.

Safety first, goes without saying. No picture is important enough to give your life for. One has to come back, intact enough to do justice to the next important story.

However, above all is one’s attitude towards the subject.

It has to be one of deep respect and compassion towards the subject. We can easily become a voyeur if

we don’t tread the object-subject line with sensitivity. As a photojournalist, my relationship with the subject is that of a certain dependence, hence humility and gratitude are paramount in my approach.

You have an amazing sense of light, especially evident in your landscape photography. Tell us a few tricks that work for you?

We are capturing light and form, the rest is degrees of refinement and stages of transcendence beyond what is visible. So light is crucial. The question then is whether I am just ensuring that my subject is illuminated or is light rendering it in a way that powerfully translates that experience, on a two-dimensional sheet or screen, as it was for me as the first witness of that scene and perspective. The language of photography is incomplete without understanding light, ‘photo’ means light after all!

In today’s day and age of social media where every other person claims to be a travel blogger and photographer, how do you make yourself stand out where business in photography is concerned?

I am of the ‘taking’ school of thought. However one can never claim that what we shoot is the absolute reality because no matter how much we try, our choices of what we shoot are bound to be influenced by our past experiences and cumulative understanding collected from the world around us. So even when I am making choices while ‘taking’ photos, I am partially ‘making’ them, based on my perception, knowledge, and sensibilities. Additionally, when one does ‘take’, it is equally important to give something back in return, even if it’s a simple smile or thanks.

Priyashi Negi priyashi@chiiz.com Trekking in the top of the hills through tiny little paths and between pines is nothing short of paradise for Priyashi. Books and poetry are herrefuge. She is a foodie at heart and seems to be blessed with a sweet tooth (sweet-teeth rather) and a love for all things cheese (pun-intended).

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Manoj Gurjar is an 18-year-old visual storyteller based in Jaipur. He uses a phone to click most of his pictures and believes that it is always the photographer and his perspective that have the pictures speaking a story. He believes that a phone’s camera can do a lot if it is used correctly and with a unique vision. So it doesn’t matter if it’s a cheap phone or an extra expensive camera, your perspective and patience for the right moment to capture always pays off. Photography for Manoj is all about practicing. That’s how he garnered his interest in photography.

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Mumbai Central Honor 10

Battle of Bunker Hill iPhone 6s Plus

Imaan Nikon Coolpix S200

Through The Eyes of Shiva DJI Mavic Pro

Rooftops of Firenze DJI Mavic Pro

Jaseel Keloth is a 23-year-old biomedical engineering graduate from IIT Varanasi.

He juggles between a full-time role as a business analyst and a life-time role as a content creator. He started photography in 2013 after being gifted his first DSLR. His life turned around when he was selected for multiple scholarships to research at top universities in the USA and Europe. He decided to not waste any weekends and holidays, and started solo-backpacking. In the past three years, he has been able to cover 37 countries across Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Nowadays, he mostly shoots aerials, cityscapes, and landscapes. He also enjoys reading, economics, and international politics. You can follow him on Instagram @jazeelmuhammedkeloth Arabian Nights Canon 70D

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Framing the Future DJI Mavic Pro

Pole Walker Canon 1DX Mark II 16mm F/6.3 1/200 ISO250

Middle Sea Note Canon 1DX Mark II 15mm F/11 1/200 ISO125

AndrĂŠ Musgrove is an underwater photographer & filmmaker, freediver, PADI scuba diving instructor & private dive guide, born and based in the Bahamas. Growing up diving in the Bahamas gave him invaluable knowledge of the best underwater locations across the country. AndrĂŠ is best known for his unique style of shooting creative concepts underwater with freedivers and divers as the subjects, interacting with marine wildlife and exploring the underwater environment.

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Friends Canon 5D Mark IV 15mm F/5.6 1/200 ISO200

Kelp Forrest Tarzan Canon 1DX Mark II 16mm F/8 1/200 ISO500

Space Bars Canon 5D Mark IV 15mm F/9 1/200 ISO200

Ocean Oneness Canon 5D Mark IV 15mm F/4.5 1/200 ISO800

Shadow Dancer Canon 1DX Mark II 32mm F/13 1/200 ISO200

Body Archer Canon 5D Mark IV 15mm F/16 1/320 ISO200

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Beautiful Hues Canon 200D 18mm F/4 1/125 ISO100

Sanjeet Tripathy Bhubaneswar, India

Mirror Image Canon 700D 10mm F/22 1/90 ISO400

Silence Broken Nikon D7000 27mm F/11 1/500 ISO400

Sumit Goel Jamnagar, India

Hamid Jamshidian Esfahan, Iran

Si-o-se-pol Sony 7RII 24mm F/9 15 ISO50

Pradeepta Das Bangalore, India

Amod Kumar Patna, India

Sony Rajput Bhopal, India

The Bean of Chicago Cano550D28mm F/13 30 ISO100

Gate Enigma Nikon D7200 22mm F/11 1/400 ISO1400

The Crown of Mosques Nikon D5300 18mm F/3.6 1/60 ISO125

Hossein Younesi Shahrud, Iran

From Carpet to the Throne Canon70D 18mm F/4 1/250 ISO100

Natesh Rao Pune, India

Nafis Ameen Dhaka, Bangladesh

Anurag Gupta Gurugram, India

Sights to see Canon 5D Mark lll 24mm F/7.1 30 ISO100

Candor Grub Club Sony Xperia XA1 4.22mm F/2 1/500 ISO50

Harsh Muhania New Delhi, India

Koel Das Toronto, Canada

Star Trek Nikon D7100 11mm F/4 1/13 ISO160

Taj Mahal Nikon D5200 42mm F/8 1/250 ISO100

Soumik Chattopadhyay Jalpaiguri,India

Sultan Ahmed Niloy Dhaka, Bangladesh

Sunrise in Oman Canon 77D 35mm F/11 1/200 ISO400

Nawab Bahadur Nawab Syed Ali Mosque Nikon D7200 13mm F/6.7 1/180 ISO140

Perfectly Fit Nikon D5200 200mm F/5.6 1/125 ISO200

Paul David Joydhar Kathmandu, Nepal

Tati ReichgruberBiermas Cozumel, Mexico

The Connector Nikon D90 18mm F/22 1/20 ISO 200

Golden Sunset Nikon 5300 10mm F/8 1/125 ISO100

Bhakti Temple Nikon D3300 10mm F/4 1/100 ISO100

Dewanshu Kumar Roy Missamari, India

Hardeep Solanki Bardoli, India

Prabhas Roy New Delhi, India

Chinmoy Biswas Kolkata, India

Palace of Fine Arts Samsung NX500 16mm F/3.5 1/10 ISO2500

Dimpal Panchoi Vadodara, India

Jama Masjid Canon 6D 17mm F/6.3 1/40 ISO1250

Illuminated President’s House Canon 5D Mark III 24mm F/4 1/60 ISO500

Aristocracy Nikon D3100 140mm F/8 6 ISO100

Ivana Šatara Split, Croatia

Chasing the Sun BenQ DC T1260 14.85mm F/5.3 1/394 ISO100

Photography Club of India

Subhajit Naskar Kolkata, India

Fawad Malik Tariq Dubai, UAE

The Malang Nikon D800E 85mm F/5 1/200 ISO320

Giovanni Volpe Siena, Italy

Lovers in Venice Nikon D800 24mm F/2.8 1/80 ISO1250

Joyraj Samanta Kolkata, India

Candid Smile Nikon D7000 34mm F/8 1/80 ISO200

Debasis Sen Janai, India

SoumyaN Ghosh Kolkata, India

Hand of Grief Canon 700D 24mm F/6.3 1/80 ISO100

Musician Nikon D7200 50mm F/11 1/125 ISO100

Through the Light!

Fujifilm XT2 10mm F/13 1/105 ISO200

Ashutosh Tripathi Lucknow, India

Kaushik Mukhopadhyay Baranagar, India

John Anthony Kochi, India

Anjan Kumar Kundu Kolkata, India

The King Canon 5D Mark III 200mm F/2.8 1/640 ISO500

Aggression Nikon D750 300mm. F/4 1/640 ISO320

Tender Love Nikon D850 500mm F/5 1/500 ISO2500

Little God Nikon D810 15mm F/2.8 1/50 ISO400

Sreejith Karimbil Salalah, Oman

Nikhil Paul Kolkata, India

Tapan Karmakar Cumilla, Bangladesh

Arabian Chameleon Canon 7D Mark II 50mm F/8 1/320 ISO800

Three Catches Nikon D5500 270mm F/6.3 1/640 ISO500

Floating Life Canon 600D 29mm F/5.6 1/200 ISO100

Broken Dreams Nikon D7100 11mm F/9 30 ISO100

Nafis Ameen Dhaka, Bangladesh

Deb Lahiri Kolkata, India

Love Eternal Nikon D7000 10mm F/7.1 1/320 ISO110

Manish Sharma Delhi, India

Meghna Agrawal Ghaziabad, India

The End of Celebration Nikon D5600 18mm F/5.6 1/250 ISO100

Evgeny Loza Nahariya, Israel

Nilesh Mazumdar Mumbai, India

Leap & Fly Fujifilm XT1 23mm F/16 1/500 ISO1600

Bartlomiej Jurecki Zakopane, Poland

Haiti Nikon D3 102mm F/2.8 1/1000 ISO1250

The Rainbow Fall Canon 60D 18mm F/22 2.5 ISO100

Tea-time Canon 5D Mark III 85mm F/2.8 1/200 ISO100

Eric Davidove San Francisco, USA

Three Sailors Sony ILCE-6500 24mm F/7.1 1/250 ISO500

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Backyard Smoke Canon 5D Mark III 63mm F/14 1/125 ISO100

Future Entangled Canon 5D Mark III 24mm F/4 1/125 ISO100

Garima Chaudhary started learning darkroom tricks in 2003 with her first camera which was Vivitar’s fully manual camera and started photography as an optional subject in grad school. She wanted to be an animator but after her post-grad in digital media, she realized later that her hidden passion was and will be always photography. Garima continues to follow her passion and specializes in people and fashion photography.

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Freedom Canon 5D Mark III 85mm F/5.6 1/125 ISO100

Basking Spring Canon 5D Mark III 95mm F/3.5 1/500 ISO100

All Blue Canon 5D Mark III 88mm F/11 1/100 ISO100

Fashion Garage Canon 5D Mark III 70mm F/16 1/160 ISO100

God is Woman Canon 5D Mark IV 62mm F/20 1/125 ISO100

Magnum Canon 5D Mark IV 35mm F/1.6 1/250 ISO100

Harsh Khandelwal is a 24-yearold fashion photographer and cinematographer from New Delhi, India.

He started his photography career in 2017 and his photography experience so far has been with Youtubers, models, brands (Under Armour, Adidas, etc) and celebrities such as Virat Kohli, Michael Phelps, Ranveer Singh,etc. He strongly believes in Ansel Adams’ words: “You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”

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Ritual Nikon D750 65mm F/4 1/125 ISO100

Entangled Canon 5D Mark IV 35mm F/1.6 1/2000 ISO800

Field Trip Canon 5D Mark IV 35mm F/1.8 1/8000 ISO100

Weekend Feels Canon 5D Mark IV 35mm F/1.6 1/200 ISO100

Undaunted Nikon D750 85mm F/1.8 1/100 ISO100

Makeup Artist of the Month Shaan Khan

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Shaan Khan is a professional hair and makeup artist based in Delhi. He works with award winning photographers, acclaimed couture designers, models, artists and bridal parties. He also has experience with film/TV, music videos, theatre and fashion shows. From an early age he was fascinated by the industry and being highly motivated, he has gained over 5 years experience as a qualified hair stylist and a qualified make-up artist. He feels that, as an artist, it is crucial to constantly refresh his ideas and finds inspiration in everywhere he looks.

Model of the Month

Priyanka Karunakaran

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Height: 5’7 ft Chest: 34in Waist: 25in Hips: 35in Priyanka Karunakaran is an acclaimed model from Mumbai. From a young age, she started training and performing as an Indian classical dancer on various platforms nationally and internationally. She further pursued her passion for the performing arts at the New York Film Academy. She was fortunate to be a part of the Indian theatre scene in a play directed

by Lilette Dubey - ‘Where did I leave my purdah?’.

She has modeled for some of the top brands and designers in India. She has appeared in various television commercials for brands like Jabong, Nykaa, Ford, Garnier, Bhima Jewellers to name a few. Also seen in a television commercial alongside Priyanka Chopra, her performances garnered her rave reviews from ad filmmakers and directors. She was on the cover of Maxim magazine as one of the top three dusky models of the country and has been a part of various fashion editorials for many reputed fashion magazines. She has been a part of a few web series and is looking forward to making her debut as an actress in the Indian film industry.

Missed Call Nikon D90 22mm F/14 1/125 ISO100

Neeraj Agnihotri is an internationally published fashion and fine art photographer & retoucher with more than seven years of experience.Having worked with several international photographers, designers, models and agencies all over the world, he is currently working with a New York-based advertising & marketing agency.

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Thoughtful Nikon D90 40mm F/13 1/125 ISO100

Know Me More, Know Me No Less Canon 5D 50mm F/7.1 1/200 ISO100

Legendary Beauty Canon 5D 70mm F/7.1 1/200 ISO100

Over the last one-year, Rejoy Krishnan has been involved in creating a new dimension to his repertoire in terms of using photography as a means of communicating meaningful and socially impactful content. In that journey, he realized his ability to create content for various platforms including OTT and films. Currently, he is doing a script for a YouTube series called “Clickiya Kadhaigal” which is a photo story and “Naughty Pengal” which is a video series.

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Modest Canon 5D 50mm F/13 1/5 ISO100

Arkadiy Kurta is a professional photographer from Kiev, Ukraine. He has been working with photography and editing since 2005. Now photography takes up all of his free time. He loves to work with certain genres in photography such as nude, street and portrait. Recently, he was awarded with gold awards from FIAP and PSA. He has held several personal photo exhibitions and now hosts workshops and photo tours for photographers and models in Ukraine and Europe.

Silence Nikon D700 50mm F/8 1/160 ISO250

Her Dreams Nikon D700 70mm F/4.5 1/1000 ISO250

Nadya Nikon D700 50mm F/8 1/160 ISO250

It is Noon Nikon D700 120mm F/4.5 1/1600 ISO250

Girl in a Black Hat Nikon D700 120mm F/4 1/1600 ISO250

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