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I am an emerging lifestyle and commercial photographer with a strong interest in visual storytelling.

Riyaa Guptaa beside her print of the Cappadocia balloons

Most of my work so far has been self-initiated, alongside collaborative student projects that pushed both the creative and the technical side of my practice. Paid event photography taught me the rest: how to work in a room that will not slow down for you, and still come away with frames that hold together.

I am currently on my postgraduate course at Kingston School of Art in London. Moving from Chennai to London meant learning a new light, a new pace, and a much wider set of perspectives to photograph against.

The practice is built on experimentation and observation — lighting, composition, and the narrative that sits between frames. I am drawn to pictures that feel honest and relatable rather than staged, and I am still building the portfolio outward through personal and collaborative work.

In the studio

Prints on the wall at a student show
Lighting set up on a shoot