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 was involved in the establishment of
India Photo Archive Foundation
The India Photo Archive Foundation is a Public Charitable Trust engaged in digitising, annotating, and preserving photographic archives. This came out as a result of Aditya Arya Archive by Aditya Arya, a photographer in India. The Foundation has b ...
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 a guest faculty member at Sri Aurobindo Centre of Art and Communication and at the
Jamia Millia Islamia University’s Institute of Mass Communication. He was also the Director at the Academy for Photographic Excellence (APEX) and a Guest Fellow and Curator at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.
Photography
Commercial photography
Arya is known for his work in hotel photography with chains such as
Radisson
Radisson Hotels is an international hotel chain headquartered in the United States. A division of the Radisson Hotel Group, it operates the brands Radisson Blu, Radisson RED, Radisson Collection, Country Inn & Suites, and Park Inn by Radisso ...
,
Club Mahindra
Club Mahindra is the flagship brand of Mahindra Holidays & Resorts India Limited (MHRIL), an Indian Hospitality company founded in 1996. It is a part of the Leisure and Hospitality sector of the Mahindra Group and provides family holidays on a ...
, and
Oberoi group
The Oberoi Group is an award-winning luxury hotel group with its head office in New Delhi, India. Founded in 1934, the company owns and operates 32 luxury hotels and two river cruise ships in 7 countries, primarily under its Oberoi Hotels & Res ...
throughout India and abroad, as well as his work in food, industry, and healthcare advertising.
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. 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. He has also worked on the Musahar Community in
Bihar.
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.
Outside India
Arya worked in collaboration with the German Embassy to cover 'Germany through Indian eyes'.
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.
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. He most recently curated the exhibition titled Kulwant Roy: Retrospective at the National Gallery of Modern Art.
Publications
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References
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Indian art historians
20th-century Indian photographers
Living people
Indian art collectors
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)