Awards & Projects
Vickram is a fashion photographer, film director and a photo artist based in Mumbai, India, known for pushing the thresholds of art and creativity with new techniques, styles, fashion films, cinema graphs, stop motion, CGI and much more.
Winner of more than 15 international awards, Vickram has been included in the 200 Best Advertising Photographers in the world by Lurzer’s Archive International. Awarded the title of Most influential person in the business of photography in India,
beating the likes of Canon n others, by Asian Photography, and featuring in the list continuously many times.
Vickram has more than 300 published covers to his name. His editorial work has appeared in editions of Elle, Femina, Filmfare, L’Officiel, Hello!, Hi!Blitz, Marie Claire, Verve; Vogue and many others.
Vickram has worked with a client portfolio exceeding 500 The likes of Dove, ITC, L’Oréal, Reliance, Raymond’s, Coca Cola, The Taj Hotel Mumbai, Fair & Lovely, CEAT, Channel V, Falguni & Shane Peacock, Godrej, MTV, Reebok, Skoda India Auto Ltd., Sony Electronics, , TBZ, Leela Palace Goa, Marriott Hotels, Lake Chalet, Aiwa, Reebok, Maaza, Videocon, Zee TV, Federal Express, King Fisher Airlines, BBC Worldwide Media, Hello! India and many more.
Vickram has had his work featured with artists like Brinda Miller, Bruta, PareishMaitey, ArzaanKhambatta, Akbar Padamsee, and many more, apart from 2solo shows at various Art venues. Vickram is passionately pushing Photography as an Art form in India. Vickram’s work has been showcased in the first comprehensive book of the best Indian Photographers, 2019. Vickram has been amongst the select few photographers chosen to be part of the first book on fine art photography in India. Vickram’s works, interviews and writings have been covered extensively in international and Indian magazines like the JJ School of Art magazine, various other periodicals, websites, online portals, blogs, etc.
Passion for various art forms has made him create music videos, fashion films, and socially relevant films. A short film, “Yahaan Gandhi BiktaNahin’, showcased at The Kala Ghoda Art Festival in Mumbai, was lauded as one of the best films on Mahatma Gandhi and formed part of a travelling exhibition to art galleries around India.
Vickram is the first Indian to be nominated at the 2014 LJIFFF, the International Fashion Films Festival, LA, USA for the film The Long Show. Vickram ‘s film on Child Abuse has become part of a collective on South Asian Children’s Film.
Vickram has published a highly appreciated and showcased quarterly Limited-Edition coffee table book Twisted Heads. Conceived as a miniature magazine with an eccentric mix of photography, painting, sculpture, personal letters, notes and poetry, inviting every form of creative art to be a part of it.
Vickram has created some of the most iconic photos with Bollywood celebrities Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Shilpa Shetty, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Abhishek Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Karishma Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Hrithik Roshan, Lara Dutta, and many more.
A spiritual being with an unceasing love for life and people, a creative thinker, a business man, a writer, a traveller, a teacher, a TV show host, a self-confessed driving enthusiast and a technology junkie, Vickram is always living his passions, one day at a time.
ART
Vickram’s art works are part of the following permanent collections:
Films
Vickram introduced fashion films to India and is the first Indian to be nominated internationally for his fashion films.
Vickram has directed approximately 25 fashion films and short films. Of note amongst them