Dhaval Sunil Dhairyawan (19 April 1979 – 22 March 2012) was a lifestyle and automotive photographer from

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. He was noted for his

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for ''The Times Journal of Photography'', TopGear India Magazine,

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and Lonely Planet Magazine. He died on 22 March 2012 due to a prolonged illness. Piramal Art Gallery,

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hosted a photo exhibition in his memory under the name, ''The Dhaval Dhairyawan Retrospective''. Due to his passion for

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, he changed the Indian outlook for automotive photography. He did several

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s for

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which were never seen in an Indian car magazine before.

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Official Flickr Profile
1979 births Artists from Mumbai Indian photojournalists 20th-century Indian photographers Indian male journalists 2012 deaths {{photographer-stub