I'm Mahesh Shantaram, a contemporary art-documentary photographer in Bangalore. Escaping cubicle captivity in 2005, I went on to study photography in Paris and returned to Bangalore to kickstart a new life.Sometimes, I'm a wedding photographer bringing art into what is generally seen as an artless profession. At other times, you'll find me silently documenting vestiges of modern Bangalore. As an art photographer, I'm represented by Tasveer.
Through these workshops, I want to share anecdotes of people I've met, inspiration from situations I've been in, and the resulting epiphanies that brought me here. next»
Where do you go for inspiration? “I went on to Flickr and it was just thousands of pieces of shit, and I just couldn't believe it. And it's just all conventional, it's all cliches, it's just one visual convention after another.” — Stephen Shore