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Harish
Curious by nature, intentional by choice. Seeing the world in RAW.
"Some people look. I try to see. The difference, I have come to believe, is intention."
I was born into India's diversity and shaped by every part of it I have been fortunate enough to encounter.
We live in one of the few countries in the world where extraordinary differences, of language, faith, food, and the particular way each region understands life, has largely held together. That is not a small thing. It is something worth protecting, and something I am conscious of every time I cross a state border on two wheels or walk into a business built by a first-generation founder from a town I had never heard of before.
Walking Alongside SMEs
A calling more than a career. Working with founders across South Asia who are building something that matters.
Seeing in RAW
Photography as a way of sharing what I see, not just what I look at. From point and shoot to mirrorless, drones and beyond.
Roads and Cultures
Sports touring on two wheels. Every road leads somewhere worth understanding. The road is how I access cultures.
My journey with small and growing businesses began quietly and grew into something I did not fully anticipate. A calling, more than a career.
Over the years I have had the privilege of walking closely alongside many founders across South Asia, through the messy, exhilarating work of building and scaling a business. What kept me here was never strategy or frameworks. It was the founders themselves. Their go-getter attitude. Their commitment to a vision they had carried for years, sometimes decades. Their willingness to learn and unlearn, often simultaneously. Their grit.
SMEs are the backbone of this economy. Not the loudest part of it, but the most essential. I have seen what happens when a founder finds clarity, builds the right team, and backs themselves. Something shifts. The business changes. Sometimes the person does too.
Today my energy goes into building the conditions that help more founders get there. Not by having answers, but by creating the environment where the right questions get asked, and the people asking them are not alone. The intent is simple. Be useful. Stay close to the work. Don't get in the way of someone else's potential.
It started in my late twenties with a point and shoot camera and a simple question: what is the difference between looking at something and actually seeing it?
I was drawn to nature, to people caught in unguarded moments, to the particular quality of light at sunrise and sunset. My attempt, then and now, is to capture what I see so I can share it with others. Not in words. Through images.
The gear has changed over the years. I became a Nikon person, moved from DSLR to mirrorless, added drones, GoPro, Insta360. The tools expanded. The mission did not. Show the world what I see.
It started in my early thirties with a CBZ and a longer ride than I had planned.
Something happened on that ride. The road, the wind, the absence of a desk and a screen. I realised that a motorcycle on an open road does something that very little else can. It connects you with yourself. The wind has a way of whispering things you needed to hear. Mental clarity arrives without effort. You calm down. You are, for a while, simply and completely present.
The bikes have changed since then. The feeling has not changed at all.
In the years ahead, I want longer roads. Ladakh. The Northeast. The parts of this country that remind you why it is worth being proud of.
Curious by nature, intentional by choice. Seeing the world in RAW.
Based in Bangalore · Riding, photographing, and working across South Asia
