Harsha Pandav Photography

31/07/2019

My first ever underwater shoot is out!
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Here's a set from my underwater conceptual with Esquire Best Dressed listee, fellow photographer, fashion influencer and part-time merman Luca of Luca's Got Style
MASSIVE shoutout to the super talented and humble Suduaya for allowing me to use this gorgeous track from his 2018 album Loveology. Kept me company through the whole edit process. On. Repeat. 👏🏼
Check out his music on Bandcamp, here - https://suduayamusic.bandcamp.com/album/loveology ❤
Music - Above the Clouds of Qadisha Valley, Loveology, 2018 by SUDUAYA .official.
Model - Luca Lombardi
Concept, Art Direction, Photo - Harsha Pandav instagram.com/harshagram 🧜🏻‍♀️

24/06/2019

'Of Trials & Tribulations'

We often compare overcoming challenges to a world on fire, broken relationships to burnt bridges, trials and tribulations to paths lit ablaze. But isn't fire the purest thing there is? It sees no good and no evil; consumes everything, pardons nothing. It takes the heaviest constructs and embellishments of our world and breaks them down to their lightest shapes, ashes to ashes, dust to dust. What if its only walking through the fire which terrifies you the most that will light away your aversions too? Will it leave you bare and true? Then, like Bukowski said, the only thing that matters in the end is how well you walk through the fire. So if you are burning, burn. If you can stand it, the fear won't make it through.
Picture from a Kandanar Kelan Theyyam performance in Kannur, Kerela. Easily one of the most challenging shoots I've shot and edited, starting with actually getting there. A thousand thanks again to those who helped and especially Chinthu and Smrithi for going out of their way to accomodate me. ❤ :)

17/06/2019

Portrait of Dhoyoe in his classroom, head in the clouds, stars in his eyes. November, 2018
I have frames from this sitting that are sharper and in focus, but this was the one I could not look away from. Ansel Adams would probably not be proud, but perhaps the impressionist masters would grant me a pardon?

07/06/2019

Taking a portrait of little Damchoe was an entertaining experience. No older than 8, him and his friends were full of energy and all kinds of mischief. He kept making me look away by pretending to talk to someone behind me, then when I'd turn back he had a little face on for the camera. Who said monks couldn't be mischievous? :)

PS: Yes, that's a Harry-Potter-esque scar hes got on his forehead. That's what I called him the whole time. :)

06/06/2019

The Monastery, Tea & Serendipity

In the six months that I traveled through India, let's just say, a lot of plans went awry. My airline lost my baggage on my first day landing in Delhi, leaving me stranded at the airport. I missed my bus to Himachal & traffic to my stay took longer than my actual flight from Dubai did. But then there were the things that just worked out somehow, with no plan or process, as if by magical serendipity.. Like when a fellow traveler started telling me about a Buddhist monastery in town, me meeting Dhoyoe, his teeny monk friends, and them inviting me to stay for tea.. I extended my stay in Himachal to spend more time playing with the juniors and having long, candid conversations with a senior monk at the school. What about, you wonder? Animal welfare, technology today, Tibet, the government and of course, as you do with a wise Lama, life. Treasured memories..

05/06/2019

Looking out at Kumbharwada



Urban life has always fascinated me with how easy it is to see drastically different lifestyles a mere kilometer from each other. The picture is from a the window in a potters studio in the slum-land looking towards the bustling skyscraper-friendly neighborhood of Mahim.

04/06/2019

03/06/2019

31/12/2018

The warmest wishes for the new year to all you enchanted couples! I'm currently traveling through India and am now taking bookings for weddings, engagements and engagement shoots in Mumbai, Kochi, Delhi, Udaipur and Ahmedabad areas. Please leave me an email at [email protected] or call my local number at +919967482699 to enquire details.
This pure moment is between Arith and Sabita 💕

31/12/2018

Travel and music are both great things. Together though, they're a dream!

I was in Pushkar, Rajasthan for the famous Pushkar Mela and had the chance to shoot a concert night for them. Artists covered were Navraj Hans and Vini Devda.

Here's a few highlights...

20/05/2018

Model: Maria Jose