Haran Kumar is an internationally acclaimed award winning Indian photographer, and a emerging abstract painter from New Delhi.Over 15 years of experience in professional photography. He is an exceptional photographer, who has mastered his craft with both fine art and commercial photography, such as: FineArt, Advertising, Fashion, Bussines Portfolio, Corporate and Industrial Portfolio, Products, Automobile, Photojournalism, Social Documentaries, Weddings, and Street Photography. His extraordinary life and the unique photographic works have been published exclusively in various leading national-international newspapers, editorial magazines, and news channels, all across the globe.His work on fine art and contemporary photographic projects have been exhibited in a number of prestigious art galleries and in countries such as India, USA, Canada, South Africa, Egypt, and more.Photography entered Haran's life at an early age of 17, through a international photography workshop in 2001, when he was living in a Delhi based non-profit organisation “Salaam Baalak Trust”. Haran ran away from his home at the age of eleven, and ended up living on the streets of Delhi mainly in and around New Delhi railway station and started doing daily wages jobs such as porter, ragpicker etc. After a few weeks spending on the streets he came in contact with Salaam Baalak trust, thus he was persuaded to go to one of their shelter home in Pahar Ganj, New Delhi, where he was met with his basic needs such as food, clothes, accommodation, love and concern.Awards• 2006 Awarded “The Best Photography Exhibition 2005” by the Visual Arts Gallery at the IHC, New Delhi, India. • 2005 Special honor received from the “Prince Claus Fund”, the Netherlands. • 2005 Awarded “Nirman Excellent Photographer of the Year” Kolkata-India. • 2001-03 Awarded “Silver & Bronze Medal” by “The Duke of Edinburgh's Award Foundation” in the UKExhibitions: • 2005 Solo Exhibition: Street Life*, curated by Dr. Alka Pande, photo selections by legendary photographer, Raghu Rai, at Open Palm Court Gallery, IHC, N-Delhi. • 2008 Solo Exhibition: Inner Voice, The Colour of Vrindavan, and Street Life* at Durban National Art Centre and Sandton Art Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa. • 2012 Solo Exhibition: Inner Voice, exhibited at Indian Summer Festival-Vancouver, Canada. • 2016 Solo Exhibition: Colors of Vrindavan, at The National Cultural Centre, Cairo Opera House, Egypt.• 2016 Annual Exhibition of Dhar Bazaar Tumble Rock Cottages, New York.
Listed skills include Digital Photography, Portrait Photography, Fine Art Photography, Commercial Photography, and 14 others.
