About
Himanshu Khagta, is a freelance photographer who was born in the lap of Himalayas in Rohru and lives in Shimla. The landscapes and nature due to its proximity to him captured his interest from childhood and moments were spent figuring out a way where he could capture everything that may never comeback.
In 5th grade, he discovered another love of his- computers and starting exploring and learning them inch by inch, inside and outside. It was with this interest that he came up with his first designed website in as early as Class 8thand coincidentally, the website was related to Himachal Pradesh as well.
In 9th grade, he was sought by MyHimachal, an NGO, where he contributed largely by doing some voluntary designing and coding work for himachal.us He also designed website for Himachal Tourism.
By 10th grade, he took his interest to a higher level by learning programming through books and internet and thus, being fluent with Visual basic, HTML, XHTML, PHP, XML, Flash, Word processing and almost every famous software.
His interest in photography hadn’t exhausted but just subsided during this phase. But the old flames renewed when his father bought him a phone camera and he begun snap shooting whenever, wherever he could. He was still learning digital photography. On the suggestion of some friends, he then started publishing them on internet.
Amusingly, the tribune, one of the leading newspapers of North India printed one of his captures from the website without any credits. Himanshu got back to them just for the sake of being feeling bad; the next day they apologized in their column. But he had learnt his lesson- and started putting watermarks on pics.
To capture and learn more in a better way, he bought an ultra compact point and shoot camera but a week later he realized it was not for him. He was meant for DSLRS but it took him a whole year to actually own one.
Through the year, his pics got published in Himachal Tourism Ads and he ended up buying a DSLR. To add feather to his cap, he also worked with Hero Honda and from then his love affair with photography seems invincible.
Now he is continuously working with numerous publications including -
Femina
Outlook Traveller
Outlook Traveller Guide Books
Spice Route ( Spice Jet Magazine )
Swagat ( Air India Magazine )
The International Herald Tribune
The New York Times
… and many other publications.
A 19 year old boy, a Self Taught Photographer, a guy who believes that internet is his teacher, loves trekking, hiking and camping – That’s what Himanshu is!
