Background
Bandi Rajan Babu was born at Koratla, in the Karimnagar district of Andhra Pradesh.
Bandi Rajan Babu was born at Koratla, in the Karimnagar district of Andhra Pradesh.
He also owned the Rajan School of Photography. Starting his career as a lecturer at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Fine Arts College, he went on to establish his own school and master the craft of ‘pictorial photography". Rajan took to serious photography in 1960 after joining the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, and became a pictorial, fashion and glamour, industrial and advertising photographer.
Rajan, who was on the faculty of Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, got his first international honour from Belgium, received the APRS honour in 1983, and followed it up with the Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society in 1987.
Rajan Babu wanted to become a painter and he was all set to become one until given a Kodak. Later, when I joined the five-year diploma course in commercial art, I came across Raja Triambak Raj Bahadur, a pioneer in pictorial photography.
lieutenant was he who inspired me to wield the camera. And here I am today from a painter to a photographer."
Starting his career as a lecturer in photography in Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, he later worked as a scientific photographer in International Crop Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics.
He opened his studio in 1978 and has, thereafter, been one among the leading photographers in India.
Apart from winning a number of national and international awards he is the only Fellow of Royal Photographic Society from Associated Press. He has 5 grandkids.