Faculty

PROFESSIONAL FACULTY.

• Apart from a full time faculty, essential to THE ONE SCHOOL GOA’s experience is the presence of a compassionate visiting faculty – as artists, teachers, mentors, and advisors.
• Most leading professional photographers and media artists have pledged their support and acceptance to come share their knowledge with our students.

They are part of our –
‘I WILL BE THERE’ campaign.

SHANTANU SHEOREY is best known for his strong visual style.

For over three decades he has been creating some of the best remembered campaigns. Whether it was the original ‘Taste the Thunder’ campaign with Salman Khan, or ‘Only Vimal’ with Viv Richards, Ravi Shastri and Allan Border or the famous ‘Garden Vareli’ saree campaigns, first with Madhu Sapre and then with Aishwarya Rai, and more recently the ‘Dabangg 2’ movie posters, all of these have a stamp of his visual mastery.

He shoots – stills and directs TV commercials for a vast array of products and clients, which make him an ideal person to mentor and teach photography and multimedia.

Shantanu has extensively photographed the Jaggnath Puri ‘Rath Yatra’ over a period of five years. He is now working towards publishing this collection as a coffee table book.

He is currently working on ‘Photography as Digital Art’, and is experimenting with various subjects and formats.

Shantanu has attended numerous photography and film workshops in the USA, and has conducted some in India as well.

He brings his passion and experience to you.

© SHANTANU SHEOREY : All photographs in this section.

AMIT SHEOKAND is a young artist and educator from Chandigarh. He studied and practiced Law before giving in to his real passion- Photography. He completed his Post Graduation in Photography from the prestigious National Institute of Design, and his MFA in Photography from UCA, Surrey. His work is inspired from experience of being with oneself and around people.

His practice is based around exploring photography as a self-referential medium. The work is quite intimate, spontaneous and often experimental. Amit uses various photo imaging technologies ranging from historic and alternative processes to modern day digital cameras and software to create work. He was selected to be the Artist in Residence at the University for the Creative Arts in UK in the year 2012. His work has been exhibited in galleries in India as well as UK.

© AMIT SHEOKAND : All photographs in this section.

ASHISH VERMA loves travelling and meeting people. He has keen interest to work with people and social issues. Ashish believes getting to his subjects heart, for which he often stays with them in their environment to bring out pictures which are autobiographical. He tends to build up relationship with his subjects.

Ashish is a Hotel management graduate. He has worked in customer service industry before joining photography. He completed PG in Photography Design from NID,Ahmedabad and MFA Photography from UCA,Farnham(UK). His work has been exhibited at various exhibitions in India and abroad.

During his stay in UK he was teaching at The Kiln Photo Workshop and was an Artist in Residence at UCA,Farnham.

© ASHISH VERMA : All photographs in this section.

Graphic. Stark. Light painter. Strong compositions. Stylish. Strong colour sense. These are some of the words that describe the work of SURESH NATARAJAN, a Bombay based photographer and graphic artist.

Suresh is one of the most sought after commercial photographers in India today. His assignments have taken him to some outstanding places and locations around the world. He has a long list of loyal clients and loves working new ones too. Experimenting with new concepts and techniques is second nature to him, this helps him stay ahead of the pack.

Some of his memorable campaigns are for Orange, Nokia, Hutch, Visa, Tanishq, Vodafone, Titan, Tata Docomo, Taj Hotels, Ponds, Dove, Wills Lifestyle, Van Heusen, Kohler, HSBC,Levis, the list is long.

Suresh has shot some of the best known social and Bollywood celebrities. His favourites subject has been His Holiness Dalai Lama, whom he has shot extensively.

His editorial work can be seen in leading magazines like Vogue, Elle, GQ, Harpers Bazaar, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Filmfare, and many more.

Suresh also directs TV commercials.

© SURESH NATARAJAN : All photographs in this section.

Anna Fox, a photographer since 1983, is Professor of Photography at The University College for the Creative Arts in Farnham. Shortlisted for the 2010 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize and in 2012 for the Pilar Citoler Prize, her work has been exhibited at Warworks at The Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography and the Victoria & Albert Museum; Centre of the Universe; Liverpool and the Avant-Garde at Tate Liverpool, How We Are: Photographing Britain at Tate Britain, Documentary Dilemmas and The Observers, both British Council touring exhibitions.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Catherine Karnow studied photography in high school, and graduated Brown University with honors degrees in Comparative Literature and Semiotics. After a brief career as a filmmaker, she turned her attention to photography full time in 1986.
Her work appears in National Geographic, National Geographic Traveler, Smithsonian, French & German GEO and other international publications. Known for her vibrant, emotional and sensitive style of photographing people, Catherine has been teaching photography since 1995; and has taught at Maine Photo Workshops; Santa Fe Photo Workshops and many others.