Personal Photography
A Personal Practice
Photography entered my life unexpectedly in 2010 during a journey through New Zealand. A single image from that trip was published as Shot of the Day in Gulf News. That moment altered the way I saw both photography and myself, transforming a casual interest into a serious and lifelong personal practice.
Since then, my personal work has travelled widely—appearing repeatedly in Gulf News, featured on National Geographic’s Daily Dozen, and published by Lonely Planet. Along the way, my photographs have been recognised through international awards, including honours from the Hamdan International Photography Award (HIPA), Al Ain Zoo Photography Competition, Xposure, Karl Taylor Photography, FIAP (Istanbul), and SENA.
My photography has been shaped by travels through New Zealand; across Europe—including France, Italy, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom; through Russia and Turkey; across the Middle East; and extensively throughout India—each journey adding its own visual rhythm, silence, and sense of place.
I approach photography as an act of observation rather than execution. My images are guided by patience, light, and the quiet moments that often go unnoticed. Travel has been a constant companion, but the deeper journey has always been inward—learning to see with greater attention, restraint, and humility.
A graduate of the College of Fine Arts, Trivandrum, specialising in Applied Arts (1992), I later founded the Friday Shoot Out (FSO) Photography Club to share this way of seeing within a wider community. My personal photography remains independent of commercial intent, rooted instead in curiosity, lived experience, and the belief that a single frame can still change the course of a life.
