A Brilliant Photo-Artist : Anil Risal Singh, MFIAP, ARPS, AIIPC, FFIP

(E-mail: anilrisal@gmail.com, Phone: +919415464566)
Anil Risal Singh (Lucknow, India) is an art lover whose creative expression has no limits. Whether it is landscape photography or presentation of artistic forms, Anil Risal Singh does it all in his own way. His unique style of photography puts him above others. He is a brilliant art photographer with a different vision. Photography is his obsession. He has been perusing photography as a medium of fine arts for last 35 years. He had inclination towards photography since his childhood. In fact he inherited this talent from his father who was an amateur photographer. His journey of art photography began in 1967 when his father gifted him an Agfa Isoly camera. But the serious phase of this journey began when he was doing B.Sc. at Lucknow Christian College. There he started a Photography- Club for students. He did his B.Sc. from Lucknow Christian College in 1974, Post graduation from Lucknow University in 1976 and Diploma in Photography in 1989. An admirer of Ansel Adam, Anil Risal Singh was interested in landscape (mountain scape) photography since very beginning and gradually developed his skills in this direction. He traveled extensively throughout India and abroad for satisfying his desire of landscape photography. In 1978 he came in touch of Kr. Shukdeo Singh ji, a renounced landscape photographer of his times. Kr. Shukdeo Singh’s cooperation and encouraging words added wings to his passion for landscape photography. His Black and White landscapes are marvelous pieces of art. In 1995 he felt an accumulation in his approach when he got inclined towards graphical and geometrical forms found in nature and in man made structures. He has done vast experiments in capturing the forms and the results are tremendous. He has organized a solo exhibition of his pictures depicting forms and shapes in 2005. Federation Internationale de l-Art Photographique, France has conferred upon him its biggest honour, Master Federation Internationale de l-Art Photographique in the year 2009 for his outstanding photographs of forms. As he is the Head, Photo Division in National Research Laboratory for Conservation of Cultural Property, Lucknow (Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India), another area of his specialization is Archaeological, Museum and Conservation Photography. Here he teaches photography to the trainees of different training courses conducted by NRLC as well. He has been associated with this institution for a period of 27 years. Black & white photography is his first love and he shoots with his analogue camera system till now, although he uses a digital camera system also. Various photographic bodies have honored him for his distinction in Art Photography. Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain honoured him with its Associateship (ARPS) for his black & white landscapes in 1991. In the same year Associatship of India International Photographic Council (AIIPC) was awarded to him. In 1995, Artist Federation Internationale de l-Art Photographique (AFIAP) was awarded to him by Federation Internationale de l-Art Photographique, France. In 2005, Excellence Federation Internationale de l-Art Photographique (EFIAP) and in 2009 Master Federation Internationale de l-Art Photographique was conferred upon him by Federation Internationale de l-Art Photographique, France. Federation of Indian Photography has honored him by its Fellowship (FFIP) in the year, 2005. He has achieved about 1500 acceptances in National and International Salons of Photography and won more than 250 awards and honour certificates. Mr. Singh was declared runner-up in Sony World Photography Award Contest in 2008. He personally attended the award ceremony at Cannes. He has to his credit 16 Solo Exhibitions in India and 2 in Atlanta, USA. He was awarded Charles Wallace Professional Grant to visit UK to do landscape photography and study photographic collection in different museums in 1999. Several articles and papers written by him have been published in National journals of Photography. A number of his papers on the subject, “Conservation of Photographic Materials” have been accepted in many International Conferences. This year a paper “Photo-documentation of hidden defects in Paper Painting - A Finger Printing Tool” has been accepted in ICOM-CC 15th Triennial International Conference at New Delhi. Mr. Singh is the Vice-President of Federation of Indian Photography and the President of Lucknow Camera Club.