About Mukesh Srivastava
A Brief Preview
An Engineer turned Photographer Mukesh Srivastava made a successful foray into the digital arena. With the dawn of digital photography, Mukesh embarked a new journey a little less than two decades back and this journey has seen him win critical acclaim and accolade from across over the globe. Hailing from Ajmer the colourful city of Rajasthan, he has a keen eye on the culture and landscape of the state. His love for the city of sand dunes, camels and caravan has reaped in many honours and achievements.
Career Highlights:
Mukesh is a qualified Engineer with Post graduation in Digital Electronics from Indian Institute of Sciences. An Ex-Director, Govt. of India, he is currently a freelance professional photographer who resides with his family in the “Coal City” of Dhanbad, Jharkhand. He has captured images in almost every genre of photography and loves capturing raw expression of people around the world. He has more than 15000 images in stock. To see the world through his lens, he travelled to Australia UK, Holland, France, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Austria & Brussels. Mukesh did a course on Creative Photography from Life and Light Accademy, Ooty.
Awards and Recognition:
Some of his work has been published in World’s No.1 “Lonely Planet” and Syndic Literary Journal, USA, Better Photography, Smart Photography, Asian Photography, NatGeo Magazine and Outlook Business. He has more than 150 National and International awards to his credit. Besides, few of his images are even being sold in the USA as Greetings cards.
In 2012, he was the first Indian author to write a book on "Digital Photography”. The second and revised edition got published in 2015.
In September 2015, he was awarded Image of The Year award by PSA (Photographic Society of America).
By January 2016, Mukesh was conferred with EFIAP distinction from FIAP, Belgium.
He was also honoured with the National Photography Award by Photo Division, Govt. of India in March, 2016.
Profile Links:
Website : www.mukeshphotography.com
Mukesh World Through The Lens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnMcMeQc0O0