Photography is such an amazing tool to be able to immediately engage people,” says Thom Pierce. “You can pull them into a story that they wouldn’t necessarily engage with in another way.”

Sharath Mudupu is a Visual Artist with a particular love for black and white imagery and a narrative perspective to a lot of his work, his approach to photography is essentially that of a portrait photographer. Whether they are documentaries, Portraiture, it is always the human element that is the focal point of his work. He draws a lot of inspiration from nature and the works of musicians, visual artists, performing artists, writers, poets,  cinematographers which in turn, he seeks to reflect in his photo stories.