Aditya Arya

Aditya Arya is an Indian photographer. He is also known for collecting, curating and archiving rare collections of photographs through the Aditya Arya Archive and the India Photo Archive Foundation of which he is the chairmanperson and trustee. He is known for curating the Kulwant Roy collection. His own photographic ventures include works within India in areas like Nagaland, Leh, Ladakh, Jaipur, Bihar etc. and outside India like in Germany. He is also teaches at Academy for Photographic Excellence or APEX in Delhi.^[1][2] Aditya Arya has had exhibitions India and abroad.^[3] Aditya Arya is one of the leading photographers in Project 365,^[4] a public photo art project initiated by EtP that creates and preserves photographic visuals of the fast changing ancient culture and lifestyle of Tiruvannamalai, an ancient town in Tamil Nadu.

Photography

Commercial photography

Arya is known for his work relating to hotel photography. He has worked with several hotels chains that include covering hotels for chains like the Radisson, Club Mahindra, and Oberoi group. He has covered these hotels all across India as well as abroad. His works also includes other specific areas in advertising such as He has also covered other areas in advertising such as food, industries healthcare etc.^[5][6]

Discovering India

Aditya Arya has travelled extensively across the country and his work reflects this. worked across India to explore different regions in the country. His work in Nagaland with writer Vibha Joshi, He has worked in Nagaland with writer Vibha Joshi to covers the 16 remaining Naga tribes.^[7] His work focusing on about the Buddhist art in the 900 year old monastery in Alchi, Ladakh the Himalayas was covered by the Smithsonian Magazine.^[8] He has also worked on the Musahar Community in Bihar.^[9] He has also covered Landscapes in Ladakh and the JalMahal in Jaipur. Other than this he has photographed the Khampti tribe in Arunachal Pradesh and a lot of Rural India^[6][9]

Outside India

Arya worked in collaboration with the German Embassy to cover 'Germany through Indian eyes'^[10]

APEX

Aditya Arya is part of the faculty and advisory board at the Academy of Photographic Excellence or APEX. He was one of the founding members of the Academy.^[3]

Aditya Arya Archive, India Photo Archive Foundation and Kulwant Roy

Aditya Arya is the owner of Aditya Arya Archive which contains rare photographic collections like that of Kulwant Roy. He was one of the founding member of the India Photo Archive Foundation and is their Chairmanperson and tTrustee. He has been restoring preserving these rare collections and providing them for viewing through publications and exhibitions.^[11][12] He most recently curated the exhibition titled Kulwant Roy: Retrospective at the National Gallery of Modern Art.^[6][13]

Publications

• The Eternal Ganga. Spantech Publishers. 1989. ISBN 978-81-85215-04-4. 
• Arya, Aditya; Joshi, Vibha (2004). The land of the Nagas. Mapin Pub. ISBN 978-81-85822-19-8. 
• Roy, Kulwant; Arya, Aditya; Kamtekar, Indivar (2010). History in the Making: The Visual Archives of Kulwant Roy. Collins. ISBN 978-81-7223-868-1. 

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