About Ashok Viswanathan

Ashok Viswanathan started photography as a school student in the early 70s with a Zeiss Ikon roll film camera and later graduated to a Nikon FM system. In 2003 invested in a digital Nikon D100. Now gone mirrorless with two Fuji X-E3 bodies.

Currently a retired company executive with a passion for culture, travel, landscape & portraits. However, he still shoots film, mainly FP4 and HP5, on a Rollieflex and Hasselblad 500 CM systems. He is a long-time exhibitor with several awards and considerable published work in print and on the web. He has been featured in several issues of the journals of the RPS, Fuji X passion, Asian photography, PSA journal, French Foto, Lens magazine etc. Ashok is also interested in alternative techniques of Cyanotypes, Bromoil, Van Dyke etc., using large format internegatives. He has a particular fondness for monochrome images. Lives in Chennai, India.

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