CURRICULUM VITAE

NAME: SANJOY GHOSH

DATE OF BIRTH: May 30, 1969

PASSPORT DETAILS: H6524653 (Republic of India)

PERMANENT ADDRESS:

25C, Bepin Mitra lane, Calcutta - 700 004, West Bengal, India.

TELEPHONE (MOBILE): 0091- 9836963429 / 0091- 8129861949

PRESENT ADDRESS:

The Week (Malayala Manorama Group)Post Box no: 4278, Panampilly Nagar, Kochi, Kerala - 682036, India.

Website: http://viiphoto.ning.com/profile/sanjoyghosh

EMAIL: sanjoyphoto@gmail.com

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

Graduate in Arts from Calcutta University.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

PHOTOGRAPHY QUALIFICATION:

Still Photography course from PAD (The Photographic Association of Dum Dum) and Bangiya Vigyan Parishad.

Basic Video Photography from FTII (Film and Television institute of India, Pune).

CAREER DETAILS:

Photo editor / Senior photographer for The Week magazine, based in Cochin since August, 2015 to present.

November 2011 – March 2014:

Photo editor / Senior Photographer The Telegraph, Calcutta: Apart from shooting in crisis, I do the research work and assign photography.

December 2007 to October 2011:

Photo editor and Senior Photographer with Outlook Traveller magazine.

*Worked on extensive travel assignments shooting for Outlook Traveller and OutlookGetaways in New Zealand, Toronto, Italy, Paris, Switzerland, Finland, Istanbul, Japan, Seoul, Maasai Mara, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, UAE, Nepal, Ladakh among other places.

May 2003 to November 2007:

Principal Photographer with Outlook News Magazine.Working for special features, photo-essays, Sports and travel photography.Worked for Outlook Hindi also.

August 2000 to April 2003:

Staff Photographer – Dubai based Gulf News: Worked on daily assignments including industrial photography to fashion shoots and daily news, sports and features for GN magazine section.

September 1995 to July 2000:

Staff Photographer Business Today (India Today Group): Mainly corporate assignments and I worked on special assignments of India Today and India Today Plus.

January 1992 to August 1995:

Worked as a freelance photographer with Calcutta based daily newspaper Amrita Bazar Patrika, Aajkal and Calcutta Skyline magazine.

RECOGNITIONS:

Photo Journalism Award, 2012, Press Council of IndiaNational Awards for Excellence in Journalism(Photo Feature Category: Capital of the Northern Province of Sri Lanka, Jaffna reflecting the positivity since the end of civil war in 2009)