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Forever young
Forever poetic
Forever alive

Raghu Rai (1942-2026)

“Ud jayega hans akela,
jag darshan ka mela…”

🚨Hear ye! Hear ye!🚨

Same passion. Broader canvas.

School of Photography is now MEDIA ARTS SCHOOL.

Discover the evolution — link in bio.

Gregory Crewdson

Crewdson is an American photographer known for staging cinematic scenes of suburbia. His surreal images are often melancholic, offering ambiguous narrative suggestions and blurring the boundaries between fiction and reality. Crewdson's photographs are elaborately planned, produced, and lit using crews familiar with motion picture production who light large scenes using cinema production equipment and techniques.

He has worked with the same director of photography, Richard Sands, along with other core team members, for some 25 years. Using shots that resemble film productions, Crewdson deconstructs American suburban life in his work. Working with large production teams to scout and shoot his images, his photographs have become increasingly complex much like a motion picture production, including its painstaking preparation of elaborate sets, lighting, and cast.

Born in Brooklyn, Crewdson studied at SUNY Purchase and Yale School of Art where he is now the director of graduate studies in photography. His most widely-known bodies of work include Twilight (1998–2002), Beneath the Roses (2003–2008), Cathedral of the Pines (2013–2014), An Eclipse of Moths (2018–2019), and Eveningside (2021–2022). Crewdson's only body of work made outside of the U.S. was Sanctuary (2009), set at the abandoned Cinecittá studios outside of Rome. Nearly all of his other work before and since was made in the small towns and cities in Western Massachusetts.

A Session with Chandan Khanna

Chandan Khanna, an alumnus of SACAC School of Photography, had an inspiring conversation with the Batch of 2023-24. Our students always find it motivating to connect with our alumni and learn about their meaningful journeys.

Chandan Khanna is a photojournalist working with Agence France-Presse (AFP) based in Miami, USA covering North-America. Chandan started working with AFP in 2014 and since, has lived and worked in various countries like China, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Jamaica, Croatia, Haiti, and now in the United States of America.

Chandan has been a finalist at the Days Japan International Photojournalism Awards 2018. He has attended the Eddie Adams Workshop, 2016, and the Angkor Photo Festival & Workshop, 2015. He was also a recipient of the Child survivor Media Award 2015, and The Tarun Sehrawat Award for Journalism of Courage and Conscience, 2013. Khanna has been named as one of the top Indian Instagrammers by Instagram, Mashable, CNN, Hindustan Times, Forbes, Buzz-feed USA, Huff-post USA, Better India, Art Radar Journal, Scroll, Make Use Of, Daily India Roots, to name a few.

Danish Siddiqui (1983-2021)

Danish Siddiqui, an Indian photojournalist, was the chief photographer at Reuters and led its national multimedia team. As part of the Reuters team, he received his first Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for Feature Photography for documenting the Rohingya refugee crisis.

Siddiqui grew up in Delhi. He did his post-graduation in mass communication from AJK Mass Communication Research Centre at Jamia Milia Islamia University. Siddiqui started his career as a correspondent for the Hindustan Times before shifting to the TV Today Network. He joined Reuters as an intern in 2010. Siddiqui had since covered the Afghanistan War (2012), Battle of Mosul (2016–2017), the April 2015 Nepal earthquake, the 2015 Rohingya refugee crisis, the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests, the 2020 Delhi riots, and the COVID-19 pandemic among other stories in South Asia, Middle East and Europe. Since July 2021, he was serving as an embedded journalist with the Afghan Special Forces to document the Taliban offensive, in what would be his last assignment.

In 2021, he was killed while covering a clash between Afghan security forces and Taliban forces near a border crossing with Pakistan. His second Pulitzer was awarded posthumously in 2022 for documenting the COVID-19 pandemic

A Workshop with Dr. A.F. Mathew

The objective of the annual workshop is to enumerate different elements of media as a tool in creating mass consciousness, and critically analyse its content, motivation, and approaches.
The workshop follows a two-pronged strategy. It outlines the content from sociological perspectives regarding race, caste, class, gender and sexuality, and also looks at the presence of such elements in the media content.

These photographs are from Aman Pal Singh’s Graduate Portfolio (Studio).

With a focus on creating visually compelling images, our students explore diverse lighting techniques and styles to produce captivating photographs. Drawing inspiration from the vast array of exceptional work available online, they continuously push the boundaries of their creative imagination while refining their technical and artistic skills.

LaToya Ruby Frazier

Frazier is a visual artist focussing on the apparent impact of systemic problems such as racism, deindustrialization, and environmental degradation on individuals, their relationships and spaces. Her practice spans a range of media — photography, installation art, video, performance and books centering on commentary and cultural change. Frazier collaborates for her storytelling with people who appear in her artwork.

Frazier began photographing at 17 and studied photography under Kathe Kowalski, who introduced her to feminist theories, semiotics, and the political and social uses of photography. She has been extensively educated in photography at University of Pennsylvania, Syracuse University, Whitney Museum of American Art and American Academy at Berlin.

Her works are in numerous collections. The Museum of Modern Art, NY; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY; The Studio Museum, Harlem; Brooklyn Museum; The Bronx Museum; J. Paul Getty Museum, LA; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto etc. are to name a few.

Sebastian Cortes, a renowned fashion and lifestyle photographer from New York, began his career at New York University’s film school in 1980. After moving to Milan in 1985, he worked with international magazines and commercial clients, focusing on fashion, lifestyle, and portrait photography. In 2004, Sebastian relocated to India, where he began capturing the country’s unique perspectives. His award-winning work, which includes stunning chronicles of old homes and people in towns like Sidhpur and Pondicherry, has been exhibited and published worldwide. The quietude of his images conveys a tale of rich legacies and forgotten histories, offering a deep and nuanced view of India’s cultural landscape. Currently, he divides his time between commercial, editorial, and artistic projects in both India and Europe, continuing to enrich various book projects with his compelling photographic narratives.

Alexander Gronsky (b. 1980)

Known as an auteur of stories of silent and isolated life, Alexander Gronsky’s lens charters the Russian periphery. He is most famous for documenting Muscovites living in spaces, which are otherwise considered brutal by the western world such as a wooded park, in front of chimneys of nuclear power stations etc. He challenges the first world gaze and questions the prejudices about aesthetics, beauty and ugliness.

Alexander Gronsky was born in Tallinn, Estonia when it was still a part of the Soviet Union. He began working as a press photographer at the early age of 17-18. After having worked for editorial photography for a couple of years, he gradually shifted towards personal documentary projects with a focus on the contemporary Russian landscape. His muse has been not only the megalopolis of Moscow but Russia’s expanses, at times home to less than one inhabitant per square kilometre.

At SACAC, photography students go through an intensive module on photobook-making.

Students learn different nuances of the bookmaking process working through narrative structure, sequencing, and layout, to understand the various implications of book-making decisions.

The module, taught by Anshika Varma, culminated in each participant arriving at their own book format, suited to the work they have been building in their course.

Faculty: Anshika Varma (Founder, Offset Projects)