Learning is not about earning, but a way of flowering – Sadh Guru This quote has many meanings for me. I grew up in a normal middle class family with knowledge and school were given utmost importance. Education and degree is a norm and every parent wants their kids to go to college as a bare minimum. But the school system most countries do not have a logical or practical adoption. I mean where will you apply Pythagoras or Trigonometry. Absolutely useless knowledge unless you plan to become a mathematician (which 99% won’t).

Why don’t they teach how to pay taxes, how to fix you car if it breaks down in the middle of no-where, survival skills, CPR etc. etc. Same goes for photography schools. I did formal education on photography but little did I realize that kind of education will only teach you 10% – the rest 90% you learn through observation. Study visual art, understand nature’s wonders, observe light, observe human emotion, observe contrast, observe shadows, notice the finer movements of air, be still and absorb. I have been to Lake Louise in Banff Canada and i would go there early in the morning around 5 and then observe the texture of the lake as the sun comes up, watch how it changes color through the day and at night. I observed those subtle changes in the reflections, changes in it’s tonality, changes in the temperature of the lake. I have done that countless times and have seen a new change every time. This is just one example of how you observe and learn. You can observe a master photographer – His BTS, his reels, his style, his compositions.

The 2nd most important thing is implement what you learn. Practice practice practice. Apply your learning and review them again. Is your picture telling you a story, is it appealing to the not so obvious. Don’t be afraid to fail. What is considered as failure deepens your experience of life far more than what you consider as success. Of there is no risk of failure, there can be no success. Learn – fail – learn again.

Born and raised in India, he moved to the United States in 2008. He worked and lived in New York for 11 years before moving to Dallas in 2020. His love for photography began in New York, where he took up a course. The more he learned, the more passionate he became for his newfound skill. He is certified by the NY Institute of Photography and eventually found himself upgrading his equipment to professional gear.

Throughout the course of his exciting career as a photographer, He has managed to amass an impressive number of awards, including the International Color Award, One Eyeland Award, and Black Spider Award. For the International Color Award, Kapil Ralli competed against 6,200 entries from 73 different countries. At present, He is also a brand ambassador for Modelmanagement.com, the world’s largest modeling platform.

He’s a big fan of bold colors and creating pictures which speak for themselves. He has been a big fan of photographers such as Tony Kelly, Gary Breckheimer, Helmut Newton, Ana Dias, Pol Kurucz etc- These artists have heavily influenced his work over the years.

Over the past 10 years, He has successfully established himself as a serious photographer who has the unique ability to transform an ordinary photograph into a classic work of art. He has been published in more than 50 magazines, including Vanity, Moevir & Flannele, Lucy, Elegant, Ellements, Opium, Pump, and Selin, among others. He specializes in unique themes such as murder mysteries, sports, dream world, farmland to Hollywood, and those that depict mythical characters.

He thinks social platforms such as Facebook and Instagram should have leniency in their picture content policy. Beautiful nude art work or even the slightest of skin gets photographers deleted. This is 21st century.

He wants to be published in the top magazines – Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Cosmo