Behind Every Frame,
a Storyteller

Twelve Years of Chasing Light

I found photography the way most people find the things that save them — by accident. A borrowed camera, a morning at Pashupatinath, and the sudden understanding that a fraction of a second could hold an entire life.

Twelve years later, Studio Laxmi is a seven-person team of photographers, filmmakers and editors, but the promise hasn't changed: we photograph what is true. The trembling hand during sindoor. The father who turns away so no one sees him cry. The grandmother laughing at a joke no one else heard.

We've carried cameras across fourteen countries, up to 5,500 metres, through monsoons and minus-twelve mornings. But the most important distance is always the same — the last few feet between the lens and something real.