Shikha Khanna is a portrait photographer who has studied photography from International College of Professional Photography (ICPP). She is also a visual content coach and a self portrait expert.
At the moment she is heading a global self portrait movement in which she is featuring 100 moms across the globe in a coffee table book called 100 self portrait 100 dreams. She was possibly India’s first photographer who specialized in photographing newborn babies, would be moms, pets and families, when she started 20 years back. She has Photographed more than 1000 Families over the last 20 years. She runs a company under the name of “Kids Say Cheese”.
She has done a number of projects with various schools like DPS International, Aravali International School, Learning Lighthouse, Cambridge University (London) etc. She is also involved with “Delhi Poetree”, with the project of shooting 200 contemporary poets.
Shikha has also done a lot of work with street children including photo presentations for social causes for ICONGO NGO award functions, Footpathshala etc and continues to contribute to the society with her photography.
She has also been teaching photography for the past 10 years and now specializes in teaching iPhone photography. She was a professor in JIIMs, and is presently taking many online classes with iphone. She has been conducting practical photography workshops under the name of PHOTOGRAPHY MADE LIGHT since 2007. She has been teaching online photography classes to grade 6, 7 & and 8 in inventure academy during covid time. She has conducted four 5 Day photography challenges with more than 100 participants in the last two years.
Shikha Khanna likes to work with natural light and shoot people in their own environment. She believes that every human face has a beautiful inner light and she likes to capture that light in her photographs. (Please find attached some work samples). Her current project with 100 moms across the world has been highly appreciated. She is now being invited on stages like Rotary to talk about the same .