Ashok

About your local photographer

Ashok Kochhar
~ Low profiled, Spiritually charged

Ashok Kochhar defies characterization as a visual artist. Over the last five decades, his visual artwork has spanned not just across industries but also across genres — from high end fashion/industrial to conceptual to landscapes to street and the list carries on. As a commercial photographer, he has worked with the best of the international brands. He has also represented Canon India for several years as its brand Ambassador. He has over a dozen books to his name, along with contributions to various exhibitions, and has been taking workshops across India and New Zealand since 2008.

Ashok is also a spiritual being at heart. He has started several initiatives to selflessly spread happiness using visual arts. His best-known non-profit initiatives are ‘A Million Smiles’ (capturing smiles of women using his old 8”X10” camera digitally), ‘Journey of a mystic’ (a multicity exhibition) and the biggest of all ‘My World-My Vision’ a community initiative to address teenage stress (exposing school kids to visual arts by providing them cameras free of cost, a nation wide initiative in New Zealand).

Ashok is an avid traveler and divides his time between Hamilton, New Zealand and New Delhi, India.

​Presently he is engaged in the most prestigious project on "The Mother Ganges", capturing river from its origin to the delta which is a 3000 Km long journey.

“My life is governed by the existence. I simply live according to what it presents to me. The images call me and I follow.” – Ashok Kochhar