About

Ran Chakrabarti is a lawyer, photographer and adventurer. He went to school in Oswestry, Shropshire and read Economics and International Relations at the London School of Economics and Law at King’s College London.

After graduating, he spent time as an intern with a diplomatic mission to the United Nations in Geneva and the United Nations Department of Political Affairs in New York, where he covered political and security issues in South Asia during the 50th special session of the United Nations General Assembly.

Before becoming a lawyer, Ran briefly wrote for Reuters in New Delhi, covering political, economic and social events across the sub-continent and the death and funeral of Mother Teresa in Calcutta in 1997.

Ran’s camera and lenses have journeyed through the Peruvian Andes, summited peaks in Kenya and Borneo and criss-crossed the slopes of the Himalayas, from Ladakh in the west, to the Annapurna Massif and the Lost Kingdom of Mustang in northern Nepal to the slopes of Kanchenjunga to the east.

He loves to capture timeless moments in the pure light during the chill of dawn or dusk and when he’s not drafting or reviewing legal documents, he is in his element conjecturing over philosophy, politics, economics and the universe at large over a game of chess, or around a camp fire under a star lit sky.