Aditya Arya

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Aditya Arya is a commercial and travel photographer. He began professional photography in 1980 after graduating from the History department of St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University.

He was involved in the establishment of India Photo Archive Foundation and the Neel Dongre Awards and Grants for Excellence in Photography. Aditya Arya has been on the Jury of the National Art Exhibition 2014 organised by Lalit Kala Akademi and a guest faculty member at Sri Aurobindo Centre of Art and Communication and at the Jamia Millia Islamia University’s Institute of Mass Communication. He was also the Director at the Academy for Photographic Excellence (APEX) and a Guest Fellow and Curator at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.

Photography[edit]

Commercial photography[edit]

Arya is known for his work in hotel photography with chains such as Radisson, Club Mahindra, and Oberoi group throughout India and abroad, as well as his work in food, industry, and healthcare advertising.[1][2]

Discovering India[edit]

Aditya Arya has travelled extensively across the country and his work reflects this. He has worked across India to explore different regions of the country. He has worked in Nagaland with writer Vibha Joshi to cover the 16 remaining Naga tribes.[3] His work focusing on the Buddhist art in the 900-year-old monastery in Alchi, Ladakh, and the Himalayas, was covered by the Smithsonian Magazine.[4] He has also worked on the Musahar Community in Bihar.[5] He has also covered landscapes in Ladakh and the Jal Mahal in Jaipur. Other than this, he has photographed the Khampti tribe in Arunachal Pradesh and a lot of rural India.[2][5]

Outside India[edit]

Arya worked in collaboration with the German Embassy to cover 'Germany through Indian eyes'.[6]

APEX[edit]

Aditya Arya is part of the faculty and advisory board at the Academy of Photographic Excellence or APEX. He was one of the founding members of the Academy.[7]

Aditya Arya Archive, India Photo Archive Foundation and Kulwant Roy[edit]

Aditya Arya is the owner of Aditya Arya Archive which contains rare photographic collections like that of Kulwant Roy. He was one of the founding member of the India Photo Archive Foundation and also the Chairman and Trustee there. He has been restoring and preserving these rare collections and providing them for viewing through publications and exhibitions.[8][9] He most recently curated the exhibition titled Kulwant Roy: Retrospective at the National Gallery of Modern Art.[2][10]

Publications[edit]

  • The Eternal Ganga. Spantech Publishers. 1989. ISBN 978-81-85215-04-4.
  • Arya, Aditya; Joshi, Vibha (2004). The land of the Nagas. Mapin Pub. ISBN 978-81-85822-19-8.
  • Roy, Kulwant; Arya, Aditya; Kamtekar, Indivar (2010). History in the Making: The Visual Archives of Kulwant Roy. Collins. ISBN 978-81-7223-868-1.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "LeadingPhotographer India,industrial,food photographyIndia,Hotel photographyIndia". Archived from the original on December 18, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2015.
  2. ^ a b c "Photo Editor | Aditya Arya | Bursa Photo Fest 2012". Archived from the original on June 18, 2012. Retrieved April 17, 2015.
  3. ^ Arya, Aditya; Joshi, Vibha (2008-09-03). The land of the Nagas - Aditya Arya, Vibha Joshi - Google Books. ISBN 9788185822198. Retrieved 2015-04-16.
  4. ^ "History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places | Smithsonian". Smithsonianmag.com. Retrieved 2015-04-16.
  5. ^ a b "LeadingPhotographer India,industrial,food photographyIndia,Hotel photographyIndia". Archived from the original on December 18, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2015.
  6. ^ "LeadingPhotographer India,industrial,food photographyIndia,Hotel photographyIndia". Archived from the original on December 18, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2015.
  7. ^ "Home | Academy for Photography Excellence". Apexindia.net. Archived from the original on 2015-05-19. Retrieved 2015-04-16.
  8. ^ "Aditya Arya Archive". Archived from the original on January 2, 2013. Retrieved January 18, 2013.
  9. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on December 31, 2012. Retrieved January 6, 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  10. ^ "NGMA displays rare photographs by Kulwant Roy | NetIndian". Netindian.in. 2012-11-15. Retrieved 2015-04-16.
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