Bio
I am an Indian - Norwegian photographer, born and raised in Oslo, Norway, currently based in New York. My educational background in photography is from Nordic School of Photography in Oslo, Norway, where I graduated in 2015. Further, I continued my studies at the International Center of Photography in New York where I graduated in 2016.
As an artist, I regard myself as a narrative photographer. The narratives are related to my experiences in life or subject matters that I regard as important to share through imagery. It is essential that the emotions in my work can be felt by the viewer and that one can depict the narratives through the emotions in the images. Since I have models and designer garments that fall into fashion photography, I desire to promote fashion as more of a fine art form. This stems from being inspired by the photographer, Edward Steichen, who was challenged by French publisher Lucien Vogel to promote fashion more as a fine art form in 1912.
Statement
Excellence is not limited to the beauty of diversity, but the necessity of diversity both in-front and behind the camera. The diversity in this series is described as a group of people who are different in the same place. The diversity is beyond the color of the skin, but includes gender, sexual orientation, religion and cultural backgrounds. It is about acknowledging and accepting talent of diversity and showing that collaborating with a diverse team will bring excellent results. I believe that there is something unique when talents from different backgrounds come together and work on the same project. It is important to me, as a photographer from India, to give opportunities to models of other origins, as they allow me the same opportunity to collaborate with them. Further, I also had makeup artists and hair stylists from Bosnia, Africa and Norway to be a part of the narrative. I picked the location and styled the models that would be cohesive with the narrative: the beauty, the power and the necessity for diversity.
