-Profile- A Photographer with Multi-Profile: Archana Deshpande Joshi

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A Multifaceted Photographer
Archana Deshpande Joshi

Archana Deshpande Joshi was 38 when she got her DSLR camera. She says, she wanted one at the age of 18 but her father couldn't buy it then. All these years, while clicking her art work for various publication and NGOs, she used DSLR owned by husband. She also did self-study on rolling, clicking and developing negative photos. Earlier, when she was spreading her art work on FB, she came in touch with Mr Vinayak Puranik who had history of Digital Photography. He had an idea of publishing a book on photography since 1975. Looking at the pics of "Chhandmitra" book, Vinayak offered book writing on photography to Archana. She was interested but was not ready. She took course in Digital Photography, learned the art and then gave it shot on writing. Till date she has written 3 books on Photography. Names ARTOGRAPHY, PHOTOMANTRA & CLICKTRICK in Marathi. All books were her weekly columns in Lokmat Thane; they later got published as books by Diamond books, Pune. With APAC they train artists, assist them, give them platform, and conduct International level Photography and art contests.

Message to Readers: "Don't think anything as small. People told her early in her career that Art would not bring her identity and money. But she proved them wrong. All should encourage the artist within and outside and give them their due respect. You may not know, that artist and his form of art will touch sky one day."

She has to her credit a number of reputed of Awards, Recognitions, Mentions at national and international levels.  Her talent has been recognized by many prominent TV channels (Zee, Mimarathi, Sam Marathi etc.), News papers (Loksatta, Lokmat, Lokprabha, Gruhashobhika, Punyanagari and Saamna, to name a few) and by various renowned national brands. She has been invited to judge many  interschool contests of drawing, painting, art & craft in Mumbai.

She completed her basic academic education from Mumbai, later earned a Diploma in Commercial arts from the reputed Nirmala Niketan College of applied arts in 1994. She has served in the field of art & craft too. Her first activity book "Chhandmitra” was selected for Sarv Shikshan Abhiyan for Maharashtra municipal corporation school syllabus for year 2018-19.  More than 30,000 copies of this book were printed and distributed to local schools of Maharashtra.

(Photographs and Text Courtesy: Archana Deshpande Joshi)

--Dr. Pankaj Sharma