Exhibitions
2022- Burningman, Black Rock City, Nevada
2019 - Gujarat Literature Festival - Vadodara, India
2017 - Lakme Fashion Week, Mumbai
2016 - Fashion Institute of Technology Museum, New York
2016 - OFFF by Night, Antwerp, Belgium
2016 - Photoville, New York
2016 - Dubinsky Center, New York
2015 - Root NYC, New York
2015 - Marvin Feldman Center, New York
2015 - Museo De La Ciudad, Queretaro, Mexico
2014 - Marvin Feldman Center, New York
2014 - Faculty of Fine Arts, Vadodara
Lectures
World Affairs Lecture Series, FIT, New York
Nassau Community College, New York
Adorama, New York
Nalanda International School, Vadodara
Faculty of Journalism, M S University, Vadodara
H L College, Ahmedabad
Publications
CNN
National Geographic Indonesia
The Huffington Post
The Week
Captured Nation
Daily Mail
Buzzfeed
Earthables
The Times of India
Profoto.com
Deccan Herald
Deccan Chronicle
PDNedu
W27
DNAindia
Hue Magazine
The Wild Magazine
Creative Image Magazine
Awards
Macy’s/Gordon Parks Foundation Scholarship
Born and brought up in Vadodara, India, Trupal Pandya is a professional photographer based in Philadelphia and New York. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in photography from the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, where he met and learned from incredibly talented and insightful teachers who have become his mentors and friends.
He documents indigenous communities, explores their local practices, and shows through his pictures how people around the world live. His portfolio includes pictures of the Huaorani Community of the Amazon Rainforest, Headhunters, Brokpas, Aghoris, eunuchs, and shepherds in India, shamans in Guatemala, Mundari people of South Sudan, and the tribes of Omo Valley in Ethiopia.
Trupal participated in the prestigious Eddie Adams Workshop in 2014 and interned with Magnum photographer Steve McCurry, well-known for his iconic photograph “Afghan Girl.” Trupal's work has been in publications like CNN, Huffington Post, and National Geographic Magazine Indonesia. He has also been on assignment with the Bernard van Leer Foundation in India, photographing ASHA workers (an organization focused on perinatal care), and the United Nations and Doctors Without Borders in Iraq, photographing the refugee camps.
More recently he has been teaching photography at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. He continues to attend the Eddie Adams workshop as a Black team member and he teaches lighting workshops around the world.
His work is rooted in the human experience and lately has become more directly motivated by the concept of oneness and the incredible power of connection amongst people, even in the remotest of regions.
