I always wanted to paint but was useless with a brush on a canvas. Even as a young child, I was enamored by pictures of sculptures and paintings around the world. I am yet to see all of it but I wish to complete that circuit one day. Of course, as any other Indian boy, I became a software engineer (by choice). And I was really good at it too. But there was this hollow feeling that I just could not let go. That’s when I started experimenting with photography. Spending years and years trying to master the techniques.

And then I met a spiritual guru who told me, “Try everything before deciding what you want to do. Don’t say, it’s not for me without experience how good or bad it is.” I tried landscape, weddings, portraits, wildlife, boudoir and nudes. The one thing I realized was that human body has always been my favorite subject and anything with a person around makes me buzz.

I once read Katherine Mansfield saying, “How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?” 

And that gave me clarity to focus on shooting fine arts. Not porn, but arts. Sensualist, not hardcore. That’s my ethos and that’s what I try creating in my work.

I still work in the software industry as I enjoy it thoroughly. And I still shoot weddings too (there is something about it). Both give me the desired financial freedom to then explore my need for art and creating work by letting myself go.

Check out my instagram too @glaxgraces

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