How my partner’s gender transition put me on a path from an engineer to an artist.

I’m an immigrant. I moved to the US over 20 years ago for grad school. I did a PhD in Computer Science, then worked as a software engineer and data scientist for over a decade. But then I decided to leave it all to pursue my artistic purpose and passion: photography.

My tech career had left me feeling unfulfilled for a while. I had accomplished everything I was ‘supposed to’, but it all felt a bit hollow. I simply chalked it up to a normal, boring midlife crisis and kept plugging away.

Then, in 2017, my spouse of 7 years came out as transgender.

As he started his process of taking hormones as part of the female-to-male transition, I saw first-hand how much being true to himself transformed him positively, both in his career and as a person.

That made me wonder: What do I need to change in my life to feel more true to myself? After a lot of introspection and soul-searching, art and photography was my answer.

Because of my multicultural background, my career transition, and my unusual marriage, I’m used to bridging multiple worlds: Indian and Western, tech and art, straight and queer.

I bring all of that that to my photography and my work with you, to help tell your story in all its beautiful complexity and contradiction.

What I love about photography

I create art out of life. What fascinates me about photography is the privilege of hearing about the amazing journeys that people have led, collaborating with them and expressing that story through evocative, beautiful images.

The moments when a client looks at their images and tells me, “You captured exactly what I wanted to convey about myself. I feel so seen!” are the most rewarding moments for me.

Ultimately, we are our stories, and those stories are how we build relationships and connections in the world. My contribution to the world is to help people tell their stories in a way that’s evocative, captivating and authentic.