Aditya Shankar
Photographer. Mountains, wildlife, and the people I travel with — the Canadian Rockies and Colorado, 2025–2026.
Selected work
Collections
The Ice Road
12 photographs
Three days on the Icefields Parkway between Lake Louise and the Columbia Icefield, following the water from the glacier down. Glacial flour is what turns the rivers and lakes that unreal turquoise.
Mirror Hours
13 photographs
Alpine lakes in the twenty minutes when the wind drops and the range doubles. Mostly before six in the morning, mostly from a cold rock at the edge of the water.
The Long Light
15 photographs
One ridge above Banff, worked from late afternoon into full dark, plus the long-lens frames where a single lit peak was the whole subject. The last three are exposures of seven, fifteen and thirty seconds.
Close to the Ground
9 photographs
Foxes in an aspen grove at ISO 11400, three birds that held still long enough, and one ground squirrel that did not. Nine frames from four encounters.
The Human Scale
11 photographs
The frames with people in them, and the things people built: a nine-hundred-year-old cliff dwelling, a mountain town from above, a main street, and four friends who agreed to stand still.
Stone and Sand
7 photographs
Colorado, where the rock is the subject rather than the backdrop: dune ridges, sandstone fins, a canyon two thousand feet deep, and a range of tilted limestone strata in Alberta that belongs with them.
Above the Treeline
6 photographs
High open country in the middle of the day — tundra, wildflowers, meltwater ponds and the trail that gets you there. The light is hard and honest about it.
