Photographers

Vivek Muthuramalingam

Vivek Muthuramalingam
Photo: Goethe-Institut / Indu Antony
Vivek Muthuramalingam is an independent documentary & editorial photographer and writer based out of Bangalore, India. In his documentary work, Vivek seeks for ideas that can serve humanitarian purposes. He strives to dedicate his abilities for projects that can illustrate and inform socially relevant, ecologically urgent and culturally important themes that can perhaps help serve a greater cause of change and sustenance. He is partial to ideas that coax a narrative and inform a deeper connection with the subject.

He studied fine-art at the Ken School of Art, Bangalore and completed his studies in medicine at Kolar, Karnataka. He worked briefly as a junior surgical resident in the Department of Urology at the Manipal Hospital in Bangalore before he turned to photography in 2005.Vivek’s photographs have appeared in print in the pages of The Wall Street Journal, National Geographic Traveller, The Sunday Guardian, Motherland Magazine, Outlook, Down to Earth, Domus India, OPEN, Mint Lounge and The Indian Express. He has also contributed to publications and printed reports for The WHO and Greenpeace. He was a staff photographer with the TimeOut Bangalore magazine from 2009 to 2011.

Photo essays

A Photo essay on Sridala Swamis’ poem "Aftermath" More ...