
Avismita Bhattacharyya
Guest Faculty
Avismita was born and brought up in Malda, from West Bengal where she completed her schooling, post that she received her under grad degree in Geography from Calcutta in the year 2010. In the following years, she took up the full-time job of a teacher in one of the leading schools in the town. She then left school and decided to join banking sector in the year 2015, but within a year she enrolled herself in the diploma of photography (with a specialization in studio light) which became a life-changing decision for her.
Since she had a huge inclination towards photography, she decided to rewrite her journey and started working as a lifestyle photographer in one the leading Bengali magazines where she got her first tryst with people and fashion photography. Along with this, she was doing her freelancing in wedding photography for almost a year where she got exposure to various leads and ideas which later helped to incept her own company.
And this gave birth to her brainchild CHARCOAL & VERMILLION in the year 2017 partnering with her best friend now her beloved husband. Since then, she has been a full wedding photographer travelling across India to capture those timeless moments in varied cross-culture weddings.
Being in the wedding photography industry for more than 6 years, she is trying to innovate her style of photography and incorporate concepts of the street and photojournalistic approach with the nuance of emotions and drama. Today when she travels back in time, and she always thinks about her decision of leaving behind the lavish teaching/ banking job. God has a different and unique plan for those who dream beyond their routine lifestyle.
As a photographer and visual storyteller, she continues to find frames of different flavours amalgamated with feelings, sentiments, and emotional moments. Whenever she gets time from her busy schedule, she travels to refresh her soul enjoying the beautiful landscape of this country. She believes in a thought process that the whole world around us is a frame, and we must keep our eyes and viewfinders wide open to capture the best of emotions and drama.
Experiences:
- Lifestyle Photographer in a leading Bengali magazine named Unish Kuri in the year 2016.
- Has led a team for Product photography for small-scale perfume and boutique ventures around Calcutta.
- Freelancing as wedding photography in 2016 for a
- Conducted workshops across West Bengal on Wedding Photography in prestigious Institutions like NSHM, CSCP (Calcutta School of Contemporary Photography), Nikon West Bengal, and Camarena Academy.
- Have been associated with Fearless Wedding photography Jury for an internal wedding photography contest
- Joined as a full-time faculty member in the EXPOSURE – School of Photography and in charge of wedding photography.
Judge:
Competition judge in Fearless photographers’ community, IWPOTY (7th International wedding photographers of the year – 2023) &  Fotografos de boda (Round 32 -2023).
Website: – https://www.charcoalandvermillion.com/
Awards:
- Winter 2025 Wedding Day Portrait Awards by the International Society of Professional Wedding Photographers (ISPWP)
- 1st Place at the IWPOTY 2022 (category winner)
- 1st Place at the International Photography Awards (IPA 2022- Event)
- 1st Place at the International Photography Awards (IPA 2021- Event)
- 2nd and 3rd Place at the International Photography Awards (IPA 2020)
- Finalist in SIPA 2021 in the wedding category
- Tifa 2020– Silver & Bronze
- Top 15 in the International Wedding Photographer of the year (IWPOTY)- 202
- 4 Fearless photographers awards and publications
- 2 Reportage awards and publications
- Runner-up Wedding Sutra Photography Awards- 2021
- Runner up for SONY Better Photography Wedding Photographer of the Year 2020 (“Family & Friends”)
- Runner up in Emotion Category Better Photography Wedding Photographers of the Year 2018
- Camarena Wedding photographer of the year for 2017, 2018, 2019 under the judgement of Mr. Raghu Rai