Siddharth Jain's CV

Telephone: +919818832150, 91-11-27014818 Email: one.phish@gmail.com Website www.siddharthjain.co.in
Postal address: C-56, Pushpanjali Enclave, Pitampura, Delhi-11003, India. Current base: Delhi,India

b. 1980, India
Siddharth started his photographic career after completing his post graduation in International Business at IIFT, Delhi in 2005. Taking the long route he is a self taught photographer and freelances. He is involved in pursuing long term project on Rajasthan and stories that have an element of human interest. He is also distributed by Zuma Press (USA) and OnAsia (Singapore).

   
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
  • MBA in International Business from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (www.iift.edu), New Delhi, 2005.
  • B.E (Telecommunications Engg.) from VTU, Karnataka, 2002. Obtained 68 %.
  • H.S.C. from The Air Force School, Delhi, CBSE, 1997. Obtained. (76.4%)
   
WORKSHOPS
  • 2007
  1. Selected on scholarship to participate in FOCUS ON MONFERRATO Masterclass conducted by Toscana
    Photographic Workshop, Italy. Instructors were Stanley Greene and Kadir Van Lohuizen.
  2. Selected on a scholarship to attend the VII workshop conducted by Gary Knight in Kashmir, India.
  • 2006
  1. Selected by Angkor Photography Festival Cambodia for “Emerging Young Photographers” workshop.
   
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
  • 2008
  1. Images selected (singles category) in David Alan Harvey Emerging Photographers Fund Grant by Magnum
    Cultural Foundation.
  2. Awarded the Toto Funds Award in Photography in collaboration with TASVEER (www.tasveerarts.com), India
  • 2007
  1. First place in VIPC (Venice International Photography Competition), www.vipc.it, category Water (Color)
  2. Finalist TPOTY 2007 (Travel photographer of the Year, www.tpoty.com), category: Sense of Place.
  3. Selected as one of fifteen runner ups amongst 4000 plus entries in CITY Magazine's "One City Destinations"(Sept 07) travel photography competition
  4. Runner Up, Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) international photo competition .FoEI is is the world’s largest grassroots environmental federation (July 2007)
  5. Images selected and awarded for 19th National Photography competition conducted by PhotoDivison, India.
  • 2006
  1. Photograph selected in Djon Mili: 2006, an international exhibition of photographs held at Kosovo
   
PUBLICATIONS AND CLIENTS
Action Aid, The National, SEEDS India, Rajasthan Tourism Dept., Himal Mag, Asian Geographic, Harper Collins, Platform mag, City Mag, Landscape mag, Pilot Guides (online), Outlook Guides, image selected for National Geographic (your shot)
   
EXHIBITIONS
  • 2008
  1. Selected for my first solo exhibition at Angkor Photography Festival 2008 showing work from “Rajasthan”
  2. Projected at FotoFreo 2008 with the project “Rajasthan: Scenes from the unseen”
  • 2007
  1. Images selected for a collective exhibition conducted by All India Laxmi Photo Competition, Allahbad, India
  2. Project “Sacred Festivals of India” selected for both catalogue and collective exhibition called “Atlantica Colectivas” during Fotonoviembre, Spain
  3. Group Exhibition “The Human Condition’ The Festival of the Photograph, Charlottesville,Virginia. USA.
  4. Group Exhibition, “We are all photographers now”, Musee d Elysee, Switzerland.
  • 2006
  1. Participated and presented a photojournalist essay on “Fishing Village of Tonle Sap: Cambodia” during Angkor
    Photography Festival.
  2. Photographs selected for “Romancing the by lanes”, a photo exhibition held by Photosensitive at NIFT, Delhi
   
MISCELLANEOUS
2009 Assisted Gary Knight and Philip Blenkinsop during VII Photo workshop in Rajasthan
Featured online in Verve Photo, New Breed of documentary photographers (www.vervephoto.wordpress.com)
2008 Featured in “Works in Making” section (photography), Tehelka Magazine (Vol 5, Issue 9), India.
   
  References available on request
   
  Siddharth Jain

 

 

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