about
Chitr Sanstha, a non-profit foundation for Photography, Estd. 2016, aims at promoting visual literacy through photography and visual arts with its initiatives.
Philosophy
Strong value system in following ethical practices, inclusion without discrimination to race, gender, age, disability, religion, political affiliation or sexual orientation, over the years, credibility, mutual respect and trust has been built, both with customers and partners across domains, which is essential for growth of the Initiative. Our streamlined processes define our strong work ethics and culture.
Initiatives
MadeYe Books | Collectible Photo books
Visual Literacy & Consulting
Photo Education Programs
Photo Contests
Sanitation, Food Supply and Mask and sanitiser distribution during CoViD
Core Team
Co-Founder (Trustee)
A Data and Analytics Corporate Leader, who is Global Research Leader at Coca Cola , London, United Kingdom with past expertise in retail measurement, customer success, e-commerce, analytics, media research, country P&L and business process improvement apart from serving as a Managing Director at Nielsen in South Asia and MD Research at Nielsen India apart from Nielsen, UK.
Co - Founder & Director (Trustee)
A Visual Artist & Photographer with over 16 years of photography experience coupled with a product, brand and strategy exposure in leading MNC's in India. An innovator, his creations are culture in the country today.
Head of Creative Design (Trustee)
The Design brains and an entrepreneur based out of Mumbai, running a boutique botanical design organization called Plant People. They overlook the aesthetics and Visual Design functions of Chitr Foundation with a past background in media and advertising, to build the Foundation as an accessible forum universally.
Leads
Yash Negi : Head SE Asia
An experienced management professional, based out of Jakarta with multifarious experience in management and the art of visual storytelling ensures focus in SE Asia. Yash is passionate about environmental conservation and societal welfare causes..
Avesh Chaudhary : Legal
A dispute resolution legal practitioner having extensive experience in advising various corporate and individual clients on intellectual property, arbitration, civil and commercial litigation matters, and regulatory/policy issues
Mhonbeni Khuvung: Video
A video editor with a decade of experience in making content for news channels, documentaries and short films. Her creativity and vision to enhance visuals resonates with the common eye.
We work with photography and visual arts, for photography and are an initiative by the photographers and talented creative professionals working symbiotically > collaboratively to take photography to larger pluralistic audiences to highlight the diverse practises, processes, styles, genres and efforts within photography as well as act as a vehicle for new initiatives > innovative new paths in Photography > Visual Arts with the commitment that the foundation seeks no profit from this endeavour, and earnings, if any, shall be invested back to further the aims and objectives of Chitr Sanstha.
Donors > Patrons
Anant P. Singh | Arvind Hoon | Avesh Chaudhary | Chhavi Mathews | Late GK Sobti | Manish B. Kulshreshtha | Mhonbeni Khuvung | Indrojit Choudhary | Late Raghuraj Singh | Rashmi Kulshreshtha | Ryan Lobo | Sankar Sridhar | Sarabjit Singh | Willy Chengappa | Yash Negi
