Annechira Shiva

ANNECHIRA SHIVA is a visual artist by profession capturing wild animals and birds, landscape, historical monuments, fine art and people using various medium. Shiva grew up sketching and painting in his teenage years. His obsession with art stayed with him through adulthood and transformed into photography during his college days. Graduating in Electronics and Communication Engineering, he went on to work as a Photojournalist and Editor with America Online, LLC for 8 years. Though Shiva works also on motion, his passion lies towards photography, as he says telling a story in just one frame needs understanding science and add art to tell a story.

Annechira Shiva has depicted lifestyles and portraits of various personalities including actors, models, dancers, writers, musicians, politicians, businessmen and sports personalities. His travel during shoots for commercial photography made him realise that his true passion was to show stories of Historical Monuments, Travel, Nature and Wildlife.

Travel and Nature Photography is not as easy as ‘just Click’, says Shiva. The sketch/framework of the image created in his mind, which then is slowly and carefully nurtured into a series of thoughts linking it to its heritage, history, present and to its timeless beauty.  These deep compositions in his mind create an imaginary picturesque of the scene.  He transfers this imaginary picture into his Camera. This requires perfect lighting knowledge, combination of various angles, technical know-how of camera and lens, and lots of patience and perseverance.

He does not compromise, till it is satisfied when it compares the imaginary image to the captured one. Shiva does not favour retouching the Images / interference of too much Photoshop with the captured image. His photography not only invokes strong feelings within us but transports us to that very scene/place. Shiva believes that nature and history should be displayed in its true form.