SL Shanth Kumar

SL Shanth Kumar

SL Shanth Kumar

SL Shanth Kumar, hails from Kollam, in Kerala, he is the Principal Photo Journalist with the Times of India, Mumbai. He doesn’t have any formal education in the field of journalism. He was a school dropout and he started working as a tea boy in a local studio at Bangalore. He began to get deeper into the workings of the darkroom and his understanding of photography attracted him to it.

In this journey he met his guru Amalnath Benedict Kumar, a photojournalist from Times of India. He provided him the initial break to get into photo journalism. Kumar avoids studio paraphernalia and digital filtering, preferring natural lighting because “there is only one sun and one light, a source which can tell several stories at the same time in a single frame. Like it or not, photo-shopping is destroying naturalism.”

SL Shanth Kumar, hails from Kollam, in Kerala, he is the Principal Photo Journalist with the Times of India, Mumbai. He doesn’t have any formal education in the field of journalism. He was a school dropout and he started working as a tea boy in a local studio at Bangalore. He began to get deeper into the workings of the darkroom and his understanding of photography attracted him to it.

In this journey he met his guru Amalnath Benedict Kumar, a photojournalist from Times of India. He provided him the initial break to get into photo journalism. Kumar avoids studio paraphernalia and digital filtering, preferring natural lighting because “there is only one sun and one light, a source which can tell several stories at the same time in a single frame. Like it or not, photo-shopping is destroying naturalism.”

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