Rajat ghosh
Photography and Digital Imaging

BIOGRAPHY

Rajat Ghosh is a San Francisco/ Mumbai-based photographer specializing in
conceptual imagery and people/celebrity . He is equally proficient while working in a studio
or on location. Rajat has worked extensively for magazines and advertising agencies.
Rajat feels: Light is the language of photography, its about the moment, its Rajats vision,
and how he reacts to his surroundings, its about the moment, form, content(emotional) ...


Work Flow: The images are captured in traditional photographic manner (on film) Using: Sinar/ Toyo-View/ Hasselblad/
shot digitally( canon 1ds markIII/ phase One, P45) and further refined digitally
in his state of the art digital production studio. The images are delivered in an electronic format
via the e-mail/ CD/ DVD or traditional film.

His client list includes: Coca Cola, Wrangler Jeans, Sony, Indian oil, Airbus Industries, Parx, Deccan Aviation, Suger Free, Franklin Templeton Investments,
Blue Star, Eureka Forbes, NIIT, Macdowells, L'Oreal, B4U-Music channel, Club Mahindra, Platinum,
Arisia, Saint-Gobain, Tara Ultimo, Black Mischief, Western Union, Hyundai, Novartris, San Francisco Ballet,
Electronic Arts...

He regularly works for agencys like : Lowe Lintas, J Walter Thompson, Contract,
Ambiance D'arcy, Slightly off center, Bailey+Phillips Group, E dot sols, Gamma Corporate( france)imagine...
Rediffusion DY & R,Design Intervention, Mudra...

Rajat has shot editorial assignments for ,
Cosmopolitan, Incite PC, Incite Video Games, PC Games, Man's World, Inside Outside, MCV, Venture,
Forbes, Institutional Investors, Gentleman, GR-8, Fortune, CFO, Newsweek ...

He has been involved in movie publicity of: Devdas, Company, Chor Machay Shore,
Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Shararat, Style, Kuch Tum Kaho Kuch Hum Kahe, Koi Mil gaya, Bold ...

Keeping up with changing technology, Rajat is involved in creating Virtual Reality(vr)
his editorial stock image collection contain personalities like :
Mr. Jawahar Kinjilal ( Global head, Innovation, Nokia)
Mr. P.V. Krishna Reddy, CEO & MD( MEIL)
Mr Sam Yamdagni MD (ITT, India)
Mr. B. Srinivas Reddy,( VP, Business development & Projects, MEIL)
Mr.Sunny Wadhawan (MD, Housing Development & Infrastructure Ltd)
Mr Rakesh Wadhawan ( Chairman, Housing Development & Infrastructure Ltd)
Mr. R K Krishna Kumar ( MD India Hotels)
Mr. Jean Jacques Lebel ( President Consumer products, L'Oreal)
Mr. Anil Khanna (MD Blue Dart)
Mr. Gautam Adani ( chairman, Adani Group)
Mr. Ratan Tata ( Tata group head)

Mr. Srinivas Vadlamani ( CFO, Satyam Computers)
Mr. Dilip Shangvi ( Chairman and MD, Sun Pharmaceutical)
Mr. K V Kamat ( ceo, ICICI bank)
Dr. Cyrun Poonawala ( Serum institute)
Mr. Sanjay Sinha ( CIO, SbiMF)
Mr. Vikram Mehta ( Chairman, Shell)
Mr. Anil Aggarwal ( Chairman, Sterlite Industries)
Mr. Jimit Shah ( Chairman and MD MCX)
Mr. Desh Bandhu Gupta ( Chairman and Founder, Lupin)
Mr. Rahul Bajaj ( Chairman, Bajaj Group)
Dr. Rashmi bhabaiya (President R and D, Ranbaxy)
Dr. Pratap C Reddy (Chairman, Apollo hospital)
Sir Arun Nanda (Exec Director, Mahindra resorts)
Mr. Govindraj (CEO, Shasun)
Mr. Vimal Kumar(Founder, Shashun)
Mr Kishore Biyani (Chairman, Future Group)
Mr. Ajit Balakrishnan (CEO, Rediff.com)
Mr. Anil Khandelwal(Chairman , Bank Of Baroda)
Ms. Chanda Kocher( MD, ICICI)
Mr. Anand Mahindra ( MD, Mahindra and Mahindra)
Mr. Harsh Mariwala (Chairman, Marico Group)
Mr. BhavarLal Jain ( Chairman, Jain Irrigation)
Mr. Naresh Goyal( CEO, Owner, Jet airways)
Mr. A M Naik( Chairman and MD of Larsen and Tubro)
MR. A Ruia( owner Phoenix Mills)
Mr. Mahesh Bhupati,( Founder Globo Sport)
Mr. Tulsi Tanti, ( CMD, Suzlon Energy)

Capt. Gopinath ( Chairman, Deccan Aviation)

to name a few ...

Workshops:
2008: With Pallavangali, school for special children.
2007: Time and Life Lecture series, An Innovative Mind, lecture at Center for Social and Organizational Leadership,Tata Institute of Social Sciences. (TISS)
2006: Time and Life Lecture series, Center for Social and Organizational Leadership, Tata Institute of Social Sciences.(TISS)
2006: Lighting at St Xaviers Institute of Communication (XIC)
2005: Photography at St Xaviers Institute of Communication (XIC)
2005: Digital Photography workshop, at Asian Photo fair Delhi, India
2004: Photography for filmmaking at St Xaviers Institute of Communication (XIC)
2004: Lighting for 3 d , set building at St Xaviers Institute of Communication (XIC)
2003: Talk on Digital Photography at Photographic Socity of India, Mumbai, India

Press coverage

Dec 2008 ----- Rajats perspective on Photography in Times of india, newspaper
Aug 2008 ------ B school News letter
Nov 2007 ----- A shooot with Rajat ghosh in Hindustan Times Mumbai newspaper
Aug 2007 ----- A feature on Rajat Ghosh in Hindustan Times Mumbai newspaper
May 2007 ----- A feature on Rajat Ghosh and his work in " Wah-India Portal"
March 2006 ----- A feature on False infrared Images in "Better Photography "
March 2006 ----- Academy of Art college newsletter
March 2006 ----- "Inside Outside "
Feb 2006 ----- Featured in Rediff.com
Feb 2006 ----- Featured in visageimages.com, Getty's media partner in India
Jan 2006 ----- Featured in "Times Journal Of Photography"
Sept 2005 ----- Featured in "Better Photography "
Feb 2005 ----- write up about digital Photography workshop in "Better Photography, India"
Jan 2004 ----- Featured in "Boys & Girls "
Dec 2003 ----- Featured in "Anokhi Vibe, Canada "
July 2003 ----- Featured in "Rave "
Sept 2002 ----- website featured in "British Joural of Photography"
Aug 2002 ----- Featured in "Times Journal of photography"
April 2002 ----- "Femina" Review of 2002 calender
Feb 2002 ----- Featured in "The Brief",
April 2001 ----- CNN interview on digital photography
March 2001 ----- Featured in "Times journal of photography"
November 2000 ----- CNN entertainment news Los Angeles
August 2000 ----- "Incite" Video of Rajat on the Lara Craft shoot


Exibitions
Dec 2009 ----- Juried exibition in Hayange, France
Dec 2009 ----- Juried exibition in St Aignan de Cramesnil, France
Dec 2009 ----- Juried exibition in Foix, France
Nov 2009 ----- Juried exibition in Indore, India
Nov 2009 ----- Juried exibition in Vidisha, India
Nov 2009 ----- Juried exibition in Bhopal, India
Nov 2009 ----- Juried exibition in hyangam, france
Nov 2009 ----- Juried exibition in Santa Ana, USA
Nov 2009 ----- Juried exibition in Westminister , USA
Oct 2009 ----- Juried exibition in Garden Grove, USA
Sept 2009 ----- Juried exibition in Narava Slovania
July 2009 ----- Juried exibition in india Print Circuit, Bhopal, MP
Sept 2009 ----- Juried exibition in Argentina
July 2009 ----- Juried exibition in india Print Circuit, New Delhi
June 2009 ----- Juried exibition in macau, China
April 2009 ----- Juried exibition in Asansol, west Bengal
Dec 2007 ----- Photographers Guild of India group show, mumbai
Feb 2006 ----- Solo Show, at National Centre of Art, Mumbai <
Aug 2005 ----- Photographers Guild of India group show, mumbai
March 2002 ----- Photographers Guild of India group show, mumbai
March 2000 ----- Solo Show at Powell Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
March 1999 ----- Solo fashion related images with designer JU, at Sutter street Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
Sept 1998 ------------------- Shakti roots of vision exibition at, works art gallery, San Jose, California, USA




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Photography and Digital Imaging