About

Nishant Ratnakar is a photographer based in Bangalore, India. A graduate in Information Science Engineering, he developed an interest in photography during his college years. He is primarily interested in photojournalism and ‘photo’ documentary. After working for a year and a half at IBM as a software developer, he quit the software industry and embarked on building a career in photojournalism.

In the year 2007, he was assigned as a staff photographer with Bangalore Mirror (Times of India group), a daily newspaper in Bangalore. At Bangalore Mirror he covered news, business, sports, entertainment and special stories.

In the year 2008, he was one among the 30 young Asian photographers selected for the Free workshop held for Young Asian Photographers during Angkor Photo Festival at Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Currently he works as Senior photographer in DNA(Daily News & Analysis), an English daily in Bangalore.

Nishant Ratnakar’s expertise lies in editorial, sports, news, portraiture and documentary photography.