EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF DELHI New Delhi
1993-1995 Masters in Political Science
Graduated with honours in top 2% of class

1990-1993 UNIVERSITY OF DELHI New Delhi
Bachelors in Political Science (Honours)
Graduated with honours in top 2% of class
1991 MODERN INSTITUTE OF PHOTOGRAPHY New Delhi
Diploma in Photography

EXPERIENCE EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY, EPA

Mar. 03 - Present Chief Photographer (Indian subcontinent) New Delhi

* Coordinate coverage of news and features from India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives and Nepal, as well as travel extensively in these countries.
* Head a team of more than 40 photographers (staff and stringers) for the region.
* Responsible for generating ideas for the subcontinent and editing all photo coverage.
* Assignments include parliamentary elections in India and Sri Lanka, devastating floods in northeastern India in which more than 1,000 people died, celebrations in Nepal of the 50th anniversary of the ascent of Mount Everest, Asia Cricket Cup 2004 in Sri Lanka, militancy in the northern Indian region of Kashmir, World Social Forum in Bombay in January 2004.
Dec. 99 – Mar. 03 THE TIMES OF INDIA

Staff photographer New Delhi

* As a general assignment photographer covered a range of events and issues related to politics, sports, ethnic violence, human-interest features, business, fashion.
* Particular emphasis on environmental degradation, especially water pollution.
Apr. 96 – Dec. 99 THE INDIAN EXPRESS

Staff photographer New Delhi

* Main assignments included the aftermath of the July 1999 India-Pakistan conflict: One photo feature examined the lives of dead soldiers’ families struggling to survive even as politicians and an indifferent bureaucracy made the war an election issue;
* Landslides in Ukimath, north India, in August 1998;
* Caste wars in Hastinapur, north India, in January 1997;
* Charkhi-Dadri plane crash in Haryana, north India, in November 1996;
* Apart from crime, elections, have covered sports, fashion, music and dance.

1994 – 1996 FREELANCE

* Photo features were regularly published in Newstime, Eenadu in Andhra
Pradesh.
* Photographs featured in Jansatta, Sunday Mail, Samachar Mail.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
Jan. 2003 ‘Popular Photography’ annual competition
* Won third prize in ‘Family and Portrait’ category of United States-based magazine’s annual competition.
Nov. 2002 World Press Photo Seminar
* Completed three-year World Press Photo Seminar in New Delhi.
* Worked on a project related to gender issues.
May 2002 Press Institute of India award
* Second award in Press Institute of India’s ‘Best News Photographs of 2001’
contest, for picture on the impact of pollution in the Yamuna river.
* Was the only photojournalist to win two prizes in the contest, for which 91
photographers from all over India submitted 371 entries.
* Photograph was part of an exhibition in Kuala Lumpur at the One Asia
Assembly, an interactive forum for the Press Foundation of Asia.
April 2002 Second Indian Press Photography Awards in Chennai
* Silver Award in the Nature and Environment category.

Nov. 2001 National Foundation for India’s National Media Fellowship
* Awarded the foundation’s sole media fellowship for photojournalists, for
2001-2002.
* Titled ‘Water of Life, and Death,’ project focuses on the metamorphoses of
the once-majestic Yamuna river into a foul, disease-carrying sewer.
* Project highlights the fact that the water cycle and the life cycle are one,
giving compelling reasons for why the river must be saved.
Dec. 2000 First Indian Press Photography Awards in Mumbai
* Gold Award in the Nature and Environment Category.
Nov. 1999 First solo exhibition
* Titled ‘The Other Side of Darkness,’ exhibition attempted to transform New
Delhi’s subways from impersonal tunnels into an experience of the vitality
and sensuality of the individuals who use them.
* 2-month exhibition was held at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
Nov. 1999 All India Fine Art and Craft Society Award
* Best Portfolio of 1999 Award.

Aug. 1999 Exhibition on Kargil
* Photographs on the India-Pakistan conflict of 1999 were part of a special exhibition organised by the Indian Express newspaper group in Bombay.
1997 - 1999 Publications
* Shot extensively for ‘Gourmet Express,’ a restaurant guide to New Delhi
brought out by the Indian Express newspaper group in 1999.
1998 Exhibitions by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
* My photographs have been selected regularly for exhibitions organized by
the federal Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on the following
themes: Children of India (1997); Land and People (1996); Life and
Environment (1995).