If your photos aren’t good enough, you're not close enough

-Robert Capa

Welcome to

Hey, my name is Rajan and this is my website.

This is a website designed for the sole purpose of sharing my works, ideas and views.

But first I think it would help if you knew a little more about me:

Growing up in Australia with a multicultural background, I have always been interested in different cultures and documenting them. Photography first became a part of this during year 4 at my primary school, when I won second place in a photography competition using a disposable camera. Since then I was hooked, from birthday parties to family outings I'm always the one behind the camera. Encouraged by my dad, I was shown the basics from an early age but it was at high school where I first found I wanted to do photography as a career. In year 10 my high school in Australia provided an introductory course to Basic Darkroom Photography, it was there I found my passion for the subject.

When my parents moved to the U.K and I started looking into college courses I was surprised to find how popular photography was here compared to Australia. I found an excellent Photography course at Henley College where I’ve been developing my skills as an amateur photographer. I was also lucky enough to get a job at photo lab, broadening my knowledge of Colour, Slide and B&W films and their processing. It also gave me experience in printing and developing, using Photoshop and familiarising myself with the many models of digital and film cameras. This experience proved invaluable during my time studying.

Through the last few years I've found myself being more attracted to the digital side of photography. The advancements in technology, the ever increasing abilities and possibilities with digital photography are endless. There is a hardly a day where I don't have my digital camera with me. To be somewhere and see a picture you cannot take because you don't have the means to, is a tragedy, a moment in time that you can never capture again.

Being brought up in Australia I have always taken advantage of the active lifestyle and opportunities that were available to me. I took part in sports such as Surfing, Rock Climbing, Roller Hockey, Rugby and Basketball. Once I arrived in England I was able to branch out my sporting interests by taking up Rowing and Gym, and continue with Basketball. It is important to me to live a healthy and active lifestyle and continue my interests in sports and fitness.

My ambition from when I first started looking at Universities was to follow in the footsteps of great Documentary Photographers like Don McCullin and Robert Capa. I love to travel, my parents live by the motto 'travel young travel cheap' and being of Indian origins I have family on basically every continent. So during my childhood I was fortunate enough to visit places like India, America, Africa, England and Australia. Combining my photography with my travelling at the moment is my hobby, to make it a career is a goal I have already started achieving.

In my generation it has not only been the Terrorist war or the Oil war it's also been the Media war. No such battles have been, or could have been, so well documented as they are today. We now have the ability to find out what is happing anywhere in the world with the touch of a button in the safety of our own homes. This is something that I aspire to do, providing a better picture of what is happing around the world, something that will make people stop and think if only for a few moments. But to provide a service such as this, there will always have to be people on the front line to capture the moments of great change or injustice. To quote Robert Capa, 'If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough' and that's where I see myself being in the near future. Capturing images on the front line from places you've never seen, been or heard about and making you stop, and think