Rajan Chaughule

He is one of the most successful photo-journalist based in India. After his diploma in commercial art (specialization in photography), Rajan was privileged to train under Rajeev Asgaonkar and Gautam Rajyadhaksha, India’s best-known photographer, before entering media.

After a stint in leading ad agency Lintas and work in industrial photography,

Rajan joined the Times of India group in 1994 and started his career with Independent and Metropolis on Saturday newspapers. During his 11 year tenure with the group, he rose to bigger positions and became Chief Photographer of Bombay Times, India’s leading life-style and entertainment paper. He moved to join the core team of journalists to DNA newspaper in 2005. In 2008, Rajan joined the Indian edition of People magazine (US magazine), Outlook group who has got licensee to publish in India as a Photo-Editor.

Critically acclaimed for his pictures, Rajan has led big photo-teams during his career. Conceptualizing, ideating and planning special shoots of leading stars and newsmakers has been his forte. He has worked with 14 top-notch editors of India in managing photo-desks, acquiring best pictures and creating archival packages for the media houses he has worked.

Besides excelling in his professional sphere, Rajan took time off to work on some special assignments, all of which received appreciation and rewards. His exhibition Kashmir After Kargil, based on the post-war scenario in 2001, considered one of his best works, went all across the state of Maharashtra. Another exhibition Confluence of Dreams, capturing the human spirit of the Kumbh Mela at Allahabad, 2002 drew record crowds in Mumbai. His vast collection of candid and stylized pictures of India’s leading celebrities was showcased in 2007 through an exhibition titled Camera Never Lies was inaugurated by Gautam Rajyadhaksha and Amitabh Bachchan.

Often invited by media and photography schools to guide students, Rajan was chosen as one of the 10 ‘brand ambassador photographers’ in India by Nokia, Singapore in 2004 to use their latest camera phone, 7610 and contribute those photographs for a Coffee Table publication, the proceeds of which were given to charity. The same year, he also felicitated by the Maharashtra government for his contribution to the ‘Art of Photography’, under the auspices of World Photography Day organized by Pan Media.

Rajan has extensively travelled across the world in connection with his work. He is one of the few photo-journalists who attended the ‘Visa pour l’image – Perpignon’ in Paris and interacted with leading global contemporaries from various media.

Bharat Bhirangi

Bharat Bhirangi is an advertising & commercial photographer based in Mumbai.

He specializes in food & beverage, automobile & product photography. A clean & uncluttered look is the hallmark of his style.

Chandar Kumar

Chandar has worked with some of the best names in the business for the last 8 years. Apart from being a winner of the Lalit Kala Academy award, he also has in his kitty awards from CAG.

Chandar's main interest lies in people photography though he is equally comfortable with still life, travel & other genres of photography.

After a stint with DNA in Mumbai, he joined as a chief photographer in Gulfimages, Dubai. On his return he joined People magazine as a senior photographer and went on to become the assistant Photo Editor.

Richa Chopada

Richa Chopada is a freelance architectural photographer based in Pune, Maharashtra.

She is a graduate from BKPS College Of Architecture, in architectural studies. Her training as an architect helped her great deal to achieve sensibility in aspects related to space, composition, human scale and proportions.

This also helps her in achieving photos which focus the architect’s concepts and design considerations.

Though an architect by profession, Richa is always keen on exploring the other side of her interests and passions- Photography. She believes herself to be a constant learner, in almost every aspect of life. Her passion for photography was ignited in a similar way, when she was trying to learn the complexity of functions of a D-SLR camera.

It was not love-at-first-sight with the camera at that time, but soon turned into a committed relationship when things turned simpler!

So she finds one thing common in every click - ITS STRAIGHT FROM HEART.

Visiting Faculty

Kedar Bhat

Physics graduate academically, photography is Kedar's hobby turned profession. Starting with Astrophotography, his interest in photography keeps shuffling from editorial, nature- wildlife, macro, interior/architectural and travel.

Kedar has been freelancing throughout his career except in 2006-07 when he joined Outlook group of publications for a very short time.

In the course of time when Kedar wanted his own website, he learned the tools of the trade gradually, built his own website and today website designing too is his second profession. Nature sound recording is another field which he touched upon but didn’t pursue thoroughly. But that still remains in his wish list.

Fawzan Husain

Fawzan Husain has a post graduate degree in journalism from Bombay School of Journalism. With over 24 years of experience as photo journalist, he has travelled extensively across India and has done several International assignments. He specializes in editorial photography.

Fawzan is a widely exhibited and published photographer. He has done nine solo shows and participated in twelve group shows in his 24 years of career. His work is included in the permanent collection at Tasveer, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Guest Faculty

We are proud to have these eminent photographers for guest lectures.

Mr. Avinash Gowariker

Mr. Vikram Bawa

Mr. Dabboo Ratnani