About Me

So after much hesitation, I have decided to create a website. I do sincerely hope that I would religiously maintain this site. It would be my official site for all things formal and informal. I’d imagine myself to be a private person who likes his own space but am full of life around the people I love and close with. I get overly attached to people and am not afraid to show my feelings (at times however I do). Despite my own flaws and insecurities, photography and traveling are two things which makes me enjoy life slightly more and document everything around me. If I am travelling, you would find a camera around my neck at all times. I enjoy all aspects of the medium - photography. I shoot almost anything - from architecture to weddings to random everyday scenes but mostly street photography.

When I first picked up a camera, I didn’t know where to find inspiration from. It was at an age where Instagram was brewing fast. And since everyone was following suit there, I wanted to be different. So I scoured the internet and came across this website called ‘Magnum Photo Agency’. I can honestly tell you ever since I discovered the photographs of Magnum photographers, I just knew what I wanted to do in my life (so cliche, but it’s true). There, I discovered one particular photographer - Christopher Anderson and his photo essay on Haitian refugees sailing to America blew me away. I was lucky to have met him in person as well as his book ‘Cop’ signed by him in Paris in 2019. Slowly I discovered more photographers in Magnum - Henri Cartier-Bresson, Steve McCurry, Susan Meiselas, Raghu Rai, Alex Webb, Jim Goldberg and more. Reading the vast plethora of global issues that these photographers covered made light of the importance of such a medium. I then knew I want to document the world around me and bring into prominence any issue I find relevant. Thus far, I have photographed the protest against Gender violence (Paris), Iraqi protest (in support of the Bhagdad protests against the regime), Catalan protests, Algerian and Lebanese protests (due to the civil problems in the respective countries) and ‘Greve Generale’ in Paris against the the pension reforms in France. I feel very passionate when I’m able to cover such stories.

I love the city of Paris where I was privileged enough to study in Dauphine University for 4 months. Those 4 months were the best (yes ‘THE BEST’) times of my life thus far. I am also a recent graduate of Psychology and Marketing from Singapore Management University (SMU) and I have a full-time day job. Would not like to give everything away but in essence l do hope to turn this passion into a career some day. Let’s keep the conversation going, be it in person or through photographs.

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