Aditya Arya

Aditya Arya is a commercial and travel photographer. He began professional photography in 1980 after graduating from the History department of St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University.

He was involved in the establishment of India Photo Archive Foundation and the Neel Dongre Awards and Grants for Excellence in Photography. Aditya Arya has been on the Jury of the National Art Exhibition 2014 organised by Lalit Kala Akademi and a guest faculty member at Sri Aurobindo Centre of Art and Communication and at the Jamia Millia Islamia University’s Institute of Mass Communication. He was also the Director at the Academy for Photographic Excellence (APEX) and a Guest Fellow and Curator at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.

Commercial photography
Arya is known for his work in hotel photography with chains such as Radisson, Club Mahindra, and Oberoi group throughout India and abroad, as well as his work in food, industry, and healthcare advertising.

Discovering India
Aditya Arya has travelled extensively across the country and his work reflects this. He has worked across India to explore different regions of the country. He has worked in Nagaland with writer Vibha Joshi to cover the 16 remaining Naga tribes. His work focusing on the Buddhist art in the 900-year-old monastery in Alchi, Ladakh, and the Himalayas, was covered by the Smithsonian Magazine. He has also worked on the Musahar Community in Bihar. He has also covered landscapes in Ladakh and the Jal Mahal in Jaipur. Other than this, he has photographed the Khampti tribe in Arunachal Pradesh and a lot of rural India.

Outside India
Arya worked in collaboration with the German Embassy to cover 'Germany through Indian eyes'.

APEX
Aditya Arya is part of the faculty and advisory board at the Academy of Photographic Excellence or APEX. He was one of the founding members of the Academy.

Aditya Arya Archive, India Photo Archive Foundation and Kulwant Roy
Aditya Arya is the owner of Aditya Arya Archive which contains rare photographic collections like that of Kulwant Roy. He was one of the founding member of the India Photo Archive Foundation and also the Chairman and Trustee there. He has been restoring and preserving these rare collections and providing them for viewing through publications and exhibitions. He most recently curated the exhibition titled Kulwant Roy: Retrospective at the National Gallery of Modern Art.