Quiet light.
Honest stories.

I grew up in Sardarshahar, a small town in Rajasthan, in a family that paid close attention to the people around the table. My father taught me to look slowly, and that hasn't really changed in the thirty-something years since.

I studied engineering in Bengaluru and then an MBA in Goa, where I joined the college photography club and won my first competition. I spent the years after that working in corporate roles — engineering, insurance, then a brief stint in an Australian corporate — while photographing on weekends. In 2024 I moved to Melbourne with my wife and committed to photography full-time.

A photograph can be technically perfect and still say nothing. The work I'm interested in is the other kind — the kind that holds a feeling.

Kahani Studio is the name I've given to the work now. Kahani is Hindi for story — the kind a grandmother tells slowly, the kind a photograph can hold without saying a word. It's the principle behind everything I make: that a photograph is worth keeping if it remembers the feeling of the day, not just the surface of it.

I'm an Indian-Australian photographer with a particular comfort photographing across the South Asian community in Melbourne — Indian families, Sikh and Punjabi gatherings, Hindu pujas, Muslim celebrations, Sri Lankan and Pakistani families. I speak English, Hindi, Marwari, and Punjabi at the studio.

But Kahani Studio is not only for the South Asian community. I photograph Anglo-Australian families in Melbourne laneways, East Asian couples along the Yarra, Ethiopian christenings, Middle Eastern maternity sessions, and everyone in between. A studio that holds room for any kahani worth telling.