AboutAbout
Independent Portrait,Editorial,NGO and Corporate photographer based out of Bangalore/Chennai,India.

Published in The New York Times, NYT Lens Blog,OZY, Outlook Traveler, OPEN, Asian Geo, New Internationalist, and several leading newspapers and magazines in India

Selvaprakash L, born 1978, in Tirunelveli, India, earned his Masters in Communication from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University. He started his career in photography as a staff photographer for Dinamalar, a leading Tamil newspaper. Later, he was Chief Photographer with Dinakaran, DNA and TimeOut Magazine.

He took part in the Angkor Photography Festival, and also won the Paris Match Award in 2007. He was awarded a fellowship to attend the TPW Changing Idea Workshop.In 2008, he won the India Press Photo Award, participated and exhibited images at the PourIInstant 15th Young Visual Artist Residency Programme in Niort-France.His works were exhibited at the 2008 World photojournalism festival (ChinaTOPS), Singapore International Photo Festival 2008 (SIPF), Angkor Photo festival( Projection) 2010 and Photovisa International Photo festival, Russia 2010, Noorderlicht International Photo festival 2011, Delhi Photo Festival 2011 and Lagos Photo Festival 2011.He was the Grant Prix Winner at the MAN AND SEA Photography Competition at the II International Festival of Photography Photovisa in Krasnodar, Russia 2010, and his works were displayed at the San Francisco Art Commission Gallery.He won the Robert Bosch Art Grant 2009-2010, and the NFI National Media fellowship 2011-2012.