REFLECTING HIS PHOTOJOURNALISM BACKGROUND, KARAN KAPOOR'S COLLECTIBLE IMAGES ARE SLICK, STYLISH AND GLAMOROUS. HE IS RENOWNED FOR HIS POLISHED, DYNAMIC YET SPONTANEOUS STYLE. KARAN IS DRAWN TO CHARACTERS AND STORIES, FINDING INSPIRATION IN THE MOVEMENT AND ENERGY OF HIS SUBJECTS. FROM PHOTOJOURNALISM HE MOVED INTO ADVERTISING. SINCE 2000, HE HAS WORKED ON HIGH-PROFILE CAMPAIGNS FOR MAJOR BRANDS INCLUDING THE ATLANTIS HOTEL DUBAI, TWIGGY FOR OLAY, VODAFONE, JWT, NISSAN, GUINNESS, NATWEST BANK, GORDON'S GIN, BELL'S WHISKY, GREENPEACE, THE NATIONAL TRUST, DEBENHAMS, SKY, BOOTS, BACARDI
Awards 2019
APPLIED ARTS AWARD
2018
CREATIVE REVIEW ANNUAL 2018
AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD 34
CREATIVE POOL ANNUAL
2017
AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD 33
2016
LURZER ARCHIVE 200 BEST AD PHOTOGRAPHERS 2016-17
AOP AWARDS
AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY 32
2015
AOP AWARDS
AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY 31
2014
LURZERS ARCHIVE 200 BEST ADVERTISING PHOTOGRAPHERS 2013-14
2013
PDN ANNUAL
PX3 PRIX DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE PORTRAITURE PRIZE
AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 29
INTERNATIONA PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD
2012
INTERNATIONA PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD
2011
AOP OPEN AWARD
AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY 27 AWARD
INTERNATIONA PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD
EXHIBITIONS
1990 THE PHOTOGRAPHER GALLERY LONDON
1992 THE COMMONWEALTH INSTITUTE
1994 THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS (SUMMER BALL)
2016 TIME AND TIDE - Limited Edition Prints
BOOKS/MONOGRAPH
1990 - ECONOMY OF SIGNS ISBN-13: 97801854890313
2016 - TIME AND TIDE
This publication accompanies Indo-British photographer, Karan Kapoor's first exhibition in India, Time and Tide, that brings together photographs from two bodies of work produced by Kapoor in the 1980s and 1990s.
The first series, shot in the 1980s, presents a study of ageing Anglo-Indians primarily from Bombay (Mumbai) and Calcutta (Kolkata), and forms one of Kapoor's earliest personal photography projects. The idea of a world no longer present or fast fading central to this work, also forms a primary thread in Kapoor's second series of photographs taken during his frequent visits to Goa, where he vacationed with his family and friends at their house on Baga Beach. Taken in the 1990s, these photographs capture an older Goa, the last remnants of Portuguese Goa.
Alongside reproductions of the 48 black and white photographs that comprise the exhibit, the publication features two original texts by William Dalrymple and Felicity Kendal.
