095: Barkha Agarwal - How To Master Newborn Photography & Make Your Business Unique
Barkha Agarwal is one of the top Maternity and Newborn Photographers globally, based in Gurugram(Delhi) India. Canon has awarded her with the prestigious Canon Maestro title. She is teaching at WPPI 2023 this year. Her session is on 'Creating Hi-Fashion Maternity Portraits that bring an edge to your portfolio' and it is already creating a lot of buzz. In past, she has won multiple international awards like WPE, Rise International, AFNS etc, and has also taught at Belly Baby Summit, USA. She left her corporate career of over 5 years in Sales and Marketing to pursue her passion of photography. Leaving a well-established corporate career was challenging but Barkha listened to her heart and decided to pursue photography full-time. Barkha experimented with a lot of different genres for over a year before pursuing Maternity and Newborn photography. What made her choose Newborn & Maternity as her genre was the emotions involved - she says that she is not photographing just the mom - but the life within her. Along with the newborn baby - a Mom and Dad take birth too& it was these emotions which she wanted to capture through her lens and turn them into lifetime memories for her clients. Barkha is a new Mom herself with a 20-month-old daughter. After her maternity leave she started back with shoots when her daughter was just 40 days old and her little girl accompanies barkha to her studio everyday. Barkha did her maternity and newborn photoshoot herself. You can check out the amazing images on her website www.memoriesbybarkha.com. She has one motto in life - " If you want something - Just go Get it Period". Barkha's Instagram handle: #memoriesbybarkhaWebsite: www.memoriesbybarkha.com