April 1, 2018 Journal After the Longest and Highest Tractor Expedition to Ladakh covering 3623kms in 14 days in 2012, Jaibir Virk planned yet another expedition in 2013. This time he along with Amit Chaudhary would take the tractor to Kanyakumari and back creating a world record for the longest…

I got a call from National Geographic Traveller and they wanted to record me taking pictures with the vivo V17 Pro, a new flagship phone launched by vivo. I would guide the viewers through the various camera features and take some pictures with it. After some discussion, my own production…

So, next week I am going to Spiti with cartons full of my first photo book — “Life in Spiti — A Winter in a Himalayan Desert.” You can buy it from lifeinspiti.com/shop I’v been getting a lot of questions on how the book was made and who published it…

I was born in Rohru, a small town about 100kms away from Shimla, known for its apple orchards, but having spent all of my life outside, I hardly know this region. So, every day I make it a point to drive to a new village and spend my evening there. Hope I’ll be able to visit all of the villages very soon. While enquiring about villages with really bad roads, my neighbour who is a government school teacher in Rohru, invited me to her village in Chwarah valley. I didn’t really have time to explore it all, but I’ll return with more pictures and information. You can follow lifeinshimla.com to see more villages like these in the near future.

The first time I saw Bharmour was when I turned eighteen. I had just got a drivers license and I had a lot of free time. The map of Himachal I had at that time showed Bharmour as the last place one could drive to on that side of Himachal. Having never seen Chamba district, I set on a solo drive in my father’s blue Maruti 800. Now after about nine years I reached back and the place is surprisingly the same. The only difference I could notice was a proper road from Chamba. Here are some pictures. These are available to be licensed for editorial use exclusively on Getty Images.

Panasonic gave me their Lumix GH5 + Vario 12–35 2.8 O.I.S lens to test for 10 days. I took it to explore the remote valley of Rohru for my ongoing project, Life in Shimla. I won’t really get into the technical part as you can find a lot more detailed…

After spending a whole winter sitting at my desk, completing the pending travel pictures, I got a call from IIT Roorkee, asking me to talk about travel photography and show my work to the students. I packed my bags for a short outing without my camera. It is so stress free travel without your equipment. I reached Roorkee by train and as we entered the campus from the railway station, Yash and Vishal who where there to receive me, told me about a surprise they had for me which was unveiled in just a few seconds. A huge billboard with my portrait ( Photographed by…

Few years back I bought my first GoPro that was used to record the roads I was driving on my various journeys. Having had no experience on how to deal with video footage, I made my first video on iMovie and upload it on a new youtube channel called, Himalayan…

I recently got a chance to interact with the amazingly enthusiastic students of the prestigious Thapar University in Punjab. I was invited to share my journey as a photographer and talk about my long term project, ‘Life in Spiti’. After my hour long talk and presentation, there were some common questions they asked me that I didn’t get the time to answer in detail. Most of them were about talking pictures of stars at night.