Aditya Arya

Aditya Arya is a commercial and travel photographer. He began professional photography in 1980 after graduating in History from the St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University.

He has played a pivotal role in the establishment of India Photo Archive Foundation and the Neel Dongre Awards/Grants for Excellence in Photography.

He has been on the Jury of the National Art Exhibition 2014 organised by Lalit Kala Akademi and many other national shows.

He  was a guest faculty at Sri Aurobindo Centre of Art and Communication and also previously at the Jamia Millia Islamia University’s Institute of Mass Communication. He was also a mentor at Habitat Photosphere, a photography festival initiative by Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre. He was also the Director at the Academy for Photographic Excellence (APEX), one of the India’s leading photography academies based in New Delhi, and a Guest Fellow and Curator at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.

Photography

Commercial photography

Arya is known for his work relating to hotel photography. He has worked with several hotels chains that includes covering hotels like the Radisson, Club Mahindra, and Oberoi group. He has covered these hotels all across India as well as abroad. He has also covered other areas in advertising such as food, industries and healthcare.[1][2]

Discovering India

Aditya Arya has travelled extensively across the country and his work reflects this. He has worked across India to explore different regions in the country. He has worked in Nagaland with writer Vibha Joshi to cover the 16 remaining Naga tribes.[3] His work focusing on the Buddhist art in the 900-year-old monastery in Alchi, Ladakh, and the Himalayas, was covered by the Smithsonian Magazine.[4] He has also worked on the Musahar Community in Bihar.[5] He has also covered landscapes in Ladakh and the Jal Mahal in Jaipur. Other than this, he has photographed the Khampti tribe in Arunachal Pradesh and a lot of rural India[2][5]

Outside India

Arya worked in collaboration with the German Embassy to cover 'Germany through Indian eyes'[6]

APEX

Aditya Arya is part of the faculty and advisory board at the Academy of Photographic Excellence or APEX. He was one of the founding members of the Academy.[7]

Aditya Arya Archive, India Photo Archive Foundation and Kulwant Roy

Aditya Arya is the owner of Aditya Arya Archive which contains rare photographic collections like that of Kulwant Roy. He was one of the founding member of the India Photo Archive Foundation and also the Chairman and Trustee there. He has been restoring and preserving these rare collections and providing them for viewing through publications and exhibitions.[8][9] He most recently curated the exhibition titled Kulwant Roy: Retrospective at the National Gallery of Modern Art.[2][10]

Publications
  • The Eternal Ganga. Spantech Publishers. 1989. ISBN 978-81-85215-04-4.
  • Arya, Aditya; Joshi, Vibha (2004). The land of the Nagas. Mapin Pub. ISBN 978-81-85822-19-8.
  • Roy, Kulwant; Arya, Aditya; Kamtekar, Indivar (2010). History in the Making: The Visual Archives of Kulwant Roy. Collins. ISBN 978-81-7223-868-1.

References
  1. "LeadingPhotographer India,industrial,food photographyIndia,Hotel photographyIndia". Archived from the original on December 18, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2015.
  2. "Photo Editor | Aditya Arya | Bursa Photo Fest 2012". Archived from the original on June 18, 2012. Retrieved April 17, 2015.
  3. Arya, Aditya; Joshi, Vibha (2008-09-03). The land of the Nagas - Aditya Arya, Vibha Joshi - Google Books. ISBN 9788185822198. Retrieved 2015-04-16.
  4. "History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places | Smithsonian". Smithsonianmag.com. Retrieved 2015-04-16.
  5. "LeadingPhotographer India,industrial,food photographyIndia,Hotel photographyIndia". Archived from the original on December 18, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2015.
  6. "LeadingPhotographer India,industrial,food photographyIndia,Hotel photographyIndia". Archived from the original on December 18, 2014. Retrieved April 17, 2015.
  7. "Home | Academy for Photography Excellence". Apexindia.net. Archived from the original on 2015-05-19. Retrieved 2015-04-16.
  8. "Aditya Arya Archive". Archived from the original on January 2, 2013. Retrieved January 18, 2013.
  9. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on December 31, 2012. Retrieved January 6, 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  10. "NGMA displays rare photographs by Kulwant Roy | NetIndian". Netindian.in. 2012-11-15. Retrieved 2015-04-16.
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