Back in 1998, I picked up my first camera. It was an old, manual Canon AE-1 film camera and I snapped pictures of just about everything from people to rivers to mugs of coffee. It was a casual sort of hobby that came and went in my life like the phases of the moon, but it wasn't until 2008, ten years later after I first picked up a camera, that I fell head over heels in love with photography. The digital format gave me the freedom to explore images in a way that was impossible with film.

It was during a wedding and a family relative handed me her DSLR. Little did she know that by handing me that Canon Rebel XTi, she created a monster (yeah, I still remember the model!).

Fast forward to the present. My photographic interest is in people of all kinds -- who they are, what are their interests, the glint of light in their eyes, the brilliant glow of their smile. If someone is by nature introspective, I want to capture that. If a person is extroverted, exploding with a vivid enthusiasm for life and living, I want to capture that too.

Over the years, my camera got bigger, my lighting setup became more complex, and my knowledge editing software expanded, but all this is just grist for doing one thing -- taking beautiful pictures of people. I love to coax, cajole and tease the personality out of a person and freeze that moment in a picture.

It is no accident that my work is primarily focused on Headshots, Portraits, Fashion and Events.

Besides, how do I make conversation with the interior of a building or a product T-shirt? It'd be pretty hard to do, right?