By Sharing, We Grow
Professional photographers Shailan Parker and Joginder Singh had been teaching photography for over a decade. In 2005 they set up PhotoSensitive with the idea of conducting workshops so anyone could learn photography by bridging the gap between the visual component and the technicalities.
What started with a Basic Photography workshop soon transcended to Photo Treks and Safaris. Workshops on Portrait Photography and Artificial Lighting were also conducted. To ensure a continuum in learning the photographers encourage interaction between participants of various workshops, online and offline. Thus was born the Photosensitive community or should we say the PS family? A rather close-knit and passionate group, members of Photosensitive learn photography by organising shoots, slide shows and photo events. The online forum is no longer active, but the group is still connected across the world and shares the same warmth and passion for the medium. In fact, PhotoSensitive would not have made even halfway across had it not been for the collective energy of the photographers that came to be a part of our journey. We also acknowledge the help and support of a lot of our friends in this creative output. By sharing knowledge and resources, everyone gets to learn photography.
About Shailan Parker
www.shailanparker.com
Shailan began his career as a professional photographer in Mumbai in 1983 and subsequently has been practising in Delhi since 1985. An alumnus of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad he trained as a graphic designer and has mainly been working in the field of design and photography. Trained in Visual Communication at the NID, Shailan Parker, the designer, brings to photography a keen understanding of design concepts, graphics and digital technology. He has worked as a photography consultant for major magazines, publishing houses, corporates, NGOs and National Design Institutes & Fashion Institutes in India. Shailan has also worked with exhibitions and museums like the Nehru Exhibition at Victoria and Albert Museum, London and the Swaraj Bhavan Museum, Allahabad among others. He partners at PhotoDesign with his wife, a Communication Designer and Educator from NID who is currently a PhD scholar at IDC, IITB, Mumbai.
A versatile photographer, Shailan Parker has over 30 years of experience in a broad spectrum of photography disciplines such as advertising, publishing, social communication, editorial, food, fashion, industrial and architecture. Shailan has worked on location all over India and some of his clients include ITC Hotels, Tupperware, KRBL Rice, Nestle India, Thapar Group, NID, NIFT, IGNCA, NAFED, Oxfam, Tradecraft to name a few.
Shailan has also been a visiting faculty member, teaching photography at The National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, The National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), New Delhi, The Pearl Academy, New Delhi and Indian Institute of Crafts and Design (IICD), Jaipur. As an educator and mentor, he has contributed extensively at these prestigious Design Schools, igniting young minds and sharing the nuances of light, shade, composition and the camera.
Shailan’s journey with light, an incessant process of experimentation and exploration, creates photographic expressions as fine art. Shailan uses his expertise to abstract art from elements in life. He balances skill, technique and art to merge the gap between artificial and natural, resulting in aesthetically beautiful, inspirational images.
About Joginder Singh
www.jogisingh.com
Joginder Singh specialises in photographing Architecture and Interiors. Trained in architecture, Joginder has honed his eye for detail that allows him to create exacting compositions capturing the essence of the space. Joginder has been shooting in Canada, India, Europe, America, Singapore and other countries. Passionate about modern architecture, Joginder is also keenly interested in Architectural Heritage leading to several published books. He set up Immaterial to publish impeccably designed books.
Joginder has been a visiting faculty member at Sushant School of Art and Architecture, Gurgaon, and at the School of Fashion and Design – GD Goenka University, Gurgaon.
He continues his journey in Canada where he teaches as Visiting Faculty at Ontario College of Art and Design University, Living Arts Center and Visual Arts Mississauga.
His published works include Glimpses of Architecture in Kerala, Forts and Palaces of India, The Arts and Interiors of Rashtrapati Bhavan and Cosmic Dance in Stone and An Adobe Revival – Didi Contractor’s Architecture.