Ameet Mallapur, a 25 year old Commerce graduate developed an interest in photography while in college in Bombay and decided to make it a full time career. He gained valuable studio experience working as an assistant to Nrupen Madhvani for three years. Having learnt the basics of advertising photography he branched out on his own in 2000. Since then he's immersed himself in the single minded pursuit of fine art photography. Having sold his work to private collectors in Bangalore and Bombay, he is looking forward to participating in his first exhibition.
Amongst the clients he has done work for are Elle magazine, Man's World, Society and Dakshini, a major garment export house based in Bangalore.

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Kunal Verma, 26, has been a professional photographer since 1999. Having completed his science education in Jamshedpur and Pune, he moved to Bombay, the mecca of advertising. He honed his skills while assisting Ronny Sequeira and Madhur Shroff from 1997 to 1999. He has participated in two group exhibitions, at the Nehru Centre in 2001 and at Jehangir Art Gallery in 2002. His forte is capturing the essence of the female form, as can be seen from his interesting portfolio of dance photographs.
Some of Kunal's favourite advertising campaigns include the ones he's done for Jet Airways, Fevicryl, Rediff.com, Planet M, Pantene, Daewoo and Zip Telecom.

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Nrupen Madhvani, 47, definitely the old man in this group, but he hasn't lost any of his youthful enthusiasm for photography. After graduating in Commerce, he began his career with editorial photography. A chance encounter with Frank Simoes in 1982 opened the door into the world of advertising. In 1986, he was invited to work as an assistant to Mr. Hiroyuki Yamamoto in Tokyo, an eye-opening experience. Since then he has won several awards from the Ad Club and CAG but his favourite is an international award for his fine art photograph titled 'Shelter', from his solo exhibition held in 1994 at the NCPA, Bombay. Another of his fine art photographs has appeared in 'Ignite Your Senses', a book published by the Swire Group, Hong Kong, in 2001 showcasing the work of 65 South East Asian artists.
His clients include Cadbury's, Citibank, Elle Décor, Femina, ITC, Inside Outside, Argyle Diamonds, Gili, Johnson & Johnson, Onida, Kodak, Hindustan Levers, L'oreal, Maybelline, Taj magazine, Tata Ceramics, World Gold Council.

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Siddharth Siva, 26, discovered his passion for photography during his schooling in Bombay. Also a Commerce graduate, he began his journey in professional photography as an assistant to Nrupen Madhvani. He went on to assist Prabuddha Das Gupta and also worked briefly with Anatol Kotte, a professional photographer from Hamburg, Germany. With this bagful of experience under his photographic belt, he went solo in 1998. An ardent student of fine art photography, he has exhibited and sold his work at Exhibit A, in Mumbai in 2001 and 2002, and the Photographers' Guild of India group show in 2003.
His interest in theatre provided him an opportunity to photograph productions of Alyque Padamsee, Rahul DaCunha, Quasar Thakore Padamsee, Atul Kumar and BBC radio.
His other professional assignments include work he has done for Society magazine, The Sunday Review, LG, Ramco Cements, Ogilvy PR, Destiny Pictures and Man's World.

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