The world of Instagram is a safe space for photographers to showcase their works and receive almost instantaneous feedback. With everyone picking up their cameras and amping up their ‘gram game’, we pick out some travel photographers who should be on your must-follow list. By Bayar Jain
1. Zaid Tantray
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Zaid Tantray is a 24-year-old solo traveller and photographer from Srinagar, Kashmir. Although he has been taking photographs since 2016, he has been doing it professionally for the past year.
2. Sohaib Ilyas
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Sohaib Ilyas is a filmmaker and aerial photographer based in New Delhi. He believes that everything and everyone has a story, and he hopes to aid people in finding these stories through his photographs.
3. Riku Gogoi
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Riku Gogoi is a freelance wildlife photographer hailing from the Sivasagar district of Assam. He started doing photography as a passion in 2011. His love for nature translates beautifully in his photographs, the most-loved of which is his bird shots.
4.Prudhvi Chowdary
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Prudhvi Chowdary’s passions are to travel and click photographs. He enjoys meeting new people, communities, and experiencing cultures. To him, travelling is a great way to expand one’s horizons, and doubles as a great way to understand one’s own traditions.
5. Dhawal Bumb
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Dhawal Bumb is an architect-turned-photographer based in Mumbai. His love for history and the numerous beautiful architectural marvels sprawling in the country double as his muse. In his photographs, he tries to capture the beauty of the monuments, and the rich history they carry with them.
6. Harshit Doshi
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Harshit Doshi is a Delhi-based traveller, trekker, explorer, writer, and photographer. His passion for travel, culture, languages, and food results in beautiful work.
7. Yashas Narayan
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Yashas Narayan is a professional photographer and a reputed naturalist who specialises in Asiatic wildlife, particularly in South India. Born in Mysore Province, home to some of the best National Parks in the country, Yashas has been exposed to the jungles from a young age. This allowed him to develop a keen sense of knowing how to understand animal behaviour and cultivate a strong passion for wildlife photography.
8. Arun Thakur
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Arun Thakur is a traveller and photographer from Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh. He has been working as a freelancer since 2016, capturing his travel experiences and explorations in every frame. To him, every picture has a story to tell.
9. Pravesh Prabhu
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Pravesh Prabhu is a Bangalore-based techie, backpacker, and photographer. For him, photography and travelling aren’t just a way to get away from life’s daily routine, but also an opportunity to see the world from a different perspective.
10. Partha Konwar
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Born in Jorhat, Assam, Partha Konwar’s journey into photography began in Shillong, Meghalaya. As an amateur, he believes in capturing the beauty of nature – especially abstract – and letting it speak through his images. He has a soft corner for abstract landscapes.
11. Nischal Hari
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Once a research associate in a leading pharmaceutical company, Nishchal Hari is now a full-time traveller. This Kerala-born backpacker and travel photographer – based in Bangalore – enjoys shooting landscapes.
12. Rishi Rathore
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A digital marketer by profession, Rishi Rathore plans and travels on long weekends to click landscapes and stories from around the world. He enjoys trying his luck with aerial photography.
13. Sachin Chauhan
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Sachin Chauhan from Kangra, Himachal Pradesh quit his job as data analyst to pursue his passion of nature and architectural photography. Since then, he is always striving to capture these beauties in his frames.
14. Bhasmang Mehta
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Bhasmang Mehta fell in love with wildlife photography after spotting leopards and Asiatic lions at the Gir National Park. Since then, this travel enthusiast not only captures the big cats in his frames, but also offers customised wildlife tours.
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