Dinesh Khanna

Dinesh Khanna

Guest Faculty

Dinesh is one of the most prestigious senior commercial photographer, mentor and teacher from the industry. Dinesh is a Co-Founder and Managing Trustee of Nazar Foundation, which has been set up to promote Photography as an art-form. And is also a Co-Founder and one of the Creative Directors of the Biennale ‘Delhi Photo Festival,’ the first 3 editions of which was held very successfully in Oct. 2011 and Sep 2013, and the 3rd edition that concluded in Nov/Dec. 2015.

He is actively involved in Photography education and has been visiting faculty at Jamia Millia – Delhi, Symbiosis – Pune and The One School – Goa. He is also a Visual Consultant with Sahapedia and Co-Director of Dhrish Academy of Photography. Dinesh’s personal work has been shown in both Solo and Group Exhibitions.

Besides these he has done 2 Pictorial Books – “Bazaar” and “Living Faith” – which were a result of over a decade of traveling through the traditional markets and religious centres of India through the Nineties.

His 3rd book, which had been commissioned by the Rashtrapati Bhawan and Sahapedia, is “Right of the Line – The President’s Bodyguard” and it’s about all aspects of the life and duties of the oldest regiment of the Indian Army, ranging from the pomp and pageantry to the passion and camaraderie of the men and their horses. This has been launched in Oct. 2015. Following the success of this, he was commissioned to work on “Life in Rashtrapati Bhawan” by them, which is his 4th Photo book and has been published in Dec. 2016.

Website: https://www.dineshkhanna.com/