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Ryan Mense

Half Moon Bay, CA

SANDEEP MATHUR

NEW DELHI, DL, IN

jabi sanz

Koh Lipe, Satun, TH

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I was born and brought up in north-eastern India – a region that's unabashedly blessed by the surrounding unspoiled and verdant hills and also steeped in unique cultural diversity. After moving to the technopolis that Bangalore is, I also eventually started relishing the seamless getaways and vistas that I had access to. As for my day job, I’m oversee functions ranging from software and data engineering to NLP, machine learning and analytics.

Regrettably though, it took much longer for the photography skills in me to take shape. It took a while for me to turn technically competent enough to qualify for a camera. For the initial 8 to 9 years of my travels, I strutted around armed with either a hapless single digit megapixel phone camera or a nondescript point-and-shoot. The moment of inflection and reckoning came in 2017 when I bought my first advanced DSLR. It’s been close to three years now and my fascination with the craft has only deepened every day – taking me across most continents and destinations not even on Google Maps. Photography has provided me the balance and perspective that were unbeknownst to me previously – allowing me to grow both as a professional and human being. I evolved from a ‘tourist who photographed’ to a ‘curator of memories’. I specifically focus on landscape and architecture photography since I’m a tad too shy to shoot other living beings. Hampi, the Peruvian Andes and the Raja Ampat islands remain my dream expeditions.