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🎥Director of Photography |Filmmaker |Photographer |Educator |Mentor 🎬 Celebrating Movies, Books & LIFE 📍Mumbai, India I FTII 📩 •••
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THE ARCHITECTURE OF INEQUALITY
Who builds the cities we live in?
Beneath India’s expanding skylines lies another landscape: fire-baked earth, towering brick kiln chimneys, drifting smoke, and the human cost of relentless labour.
Across India’s brick kilns, men and women work amid dust, extreme heat, and hazardous conditions. Children grow up in these landscapes, where childhood and survival often exist side by side, and homes become extensions of the workplace.
Through documentary photography, intimate portraits, and expansive landscapes, The Architecture of Inequality explores the lives behind the bricks that build a nation.
Every brick becomes part of a city. Every city tells a story of progress. But whose labour remains invisible in that story?
This photo essay is a visual exploration of labour, inequality, resilience, and the human stories concealed beneath India’s urban growth.
Save this photo story, share it, and join the conversation.
#DocumentaryPhotography #Photojournalism #BrickKilnWorkers #IndianPhotography #devagarwal
26 Oct 2026
“Before I thought about cameras or lenses, I thought about the land. The story exists in a very particular geography — ravines, dry earth, forests, villages and enormous stretches of space.
“I felt that the landscape could not simply be a backdrop for the characters. The land had to have its own presence. The characters are moving through a world that is physically difficult to navigate and psychologically difficult to understand. So, I wanted the photography to preserve that feeling of distance, uncertainty and intimacy. That became the starting point for almost every technical decision that followed.”
Directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia, Ghamasaan unfolds in the ravines of the Indian heartland — a world where landscape, violence and mythology become inseparable. Cinematographer Dev Agarwal approached the film not as an exercise in recreating the Western, but as an exploration of how its visual language could emerge organically from the geography of Bundelkhand. Shot on the ARRI ALEXA Mini LF with Cooke Anamorphic/i Full Frame lenses, the film uses scale, distance, texture and light to create a world that feels both brutally real and larger than life.
Read more on our website!
26 Sep 2026
WE DIDN’T JUST SHOOT THE LANDSCAPE. WE LET IT TELL THE STORY.
In GHAMASAAN, the ravines of Bundelkhand are more than a setting. They hold the silence, the violence and the history of the world these characters inhabit.
The visual approach was rooted in a Western sensibility — expansive landscapes, dusty village interiors, natural textures and a camera that observes rather than announces itself.
To see critics and publications recognise this visual language is deeply gratifying.
Swipe through a selection of reviews appreciating the cinematography of GHAMASAAN.
🎥 Camera: ARRI ALEXA Mini LF
Lenses: Cooke Anamorphic/i and Angénieux 42–420mm Anamorphic Zoom
shot by Dev Agarwal, Director of Photography.
🌐 www.devagarwaldp.com
#Ghamasaan #DevAgarwal #Cinematography #DirectorOfPhotography #IndianCinema
13 Oct 2026
Directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia, with cinematography by Dev Agarwal (@devagarwal_dp), Ghamassan unfolds in the ravines of Bundelkhand, exploring themes of conflict, landscape and human resilience.
Dev Agarwal shot the feature on Cooke Anamorphic/i FF lenses, using scale, texture and light to create a visual world that feels larger than life.
We sat down with the DOP to explore his visual approach, the challenges of capturing Bundelkhand’s rugged landscape, and what made Cooke the right choice for the film.
Read the full conversation now, link in bio.
#Cooke #CookeAnamorphic #CookeLenses #IndianCinema #Cinematography
07 Oct 2026
GHAMASAAN — Behind the Scenes 🎬
A few moments from the making of Ghamasaan with an incredible team
These photographs are fragments from that journey.
Not the film itself, but traces of how we found it.
We shot on the ARRI ALEXA Mini LF, using Cooke Anamorphic/i Full Frame lenses to create an image with texture, depth and an organic sense of place.
Ghamasaan is now streaming on ZEE5.
@arri_asia @arri @arri_india @cookeoptics @angenieuxlenses
#Ghamasaan #cookeoptics #DevAgarwal #Cinematography #ARRIAlexaMiniLF
15 Sep 2026
The ravines are open.
The hunt has begun.
GHAMASAAN. NOW STREAMING ON ZEE5.
There is something incredibly special about seeing a film you have lived with for so long finally find its audience.
GHAMASAAN — THE REVIEWS ARE IN.
So it has been particularly gratifying to see critics recognise that visual journey.
“Dev Agrawal’s handsome compositions.”
— Scroll.in
Read the review — Scroll.in
“Superlative cinematography.”
— High On Films
Read the review — High On Films
“Dev Agarwal’s cinematography enhances the cinematic appeal.”
— Bollywood Hungama
Read the review — Bollywood Hungama
“The wide, desolate ravine compositions and tense, shadowy forest chases evoke classic 70s revisionist Westerns.”
— SantaBanta
Read the review — SantaBanta
“The camera captures the essence of small towns and villages, taking us right into the heart of the story.”
— iDiva
Read the review — iDiva
The ravines are now yours to discover.
GHAMASAAN is streaming on ZEE5.
#Ghamasaan #ZEE5 #TigmanshuDhulia #NowStreaming #cinematography
14 Sep 2026
A glimpse into life in Benin, Nigeria.
Through its people, villages, landscapes and everyday moments, this journey gave me a chance to see a place beyond the usual stories. Simple encounters, familiar emotions and memories that stay with you.
A few moments from the road, captured through my lens.
#NigeriaPhotography #BeninNigeria #TravelPhotography #DocumentaryPhotography #devagarwal
04 Nov 2026
A glimpse into the world of Ghamasaan, directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia, starring Pratik Gandhi and Arshad Warsi.
Shot through a landscape of emotions, conflicts and silences.
Now streaming on ZEE5.
Watch the film and let me know what you think.
#Ghamasaan #GhamasaanOnZEE5 #Cinematography #IndianCinema #devagarwal
31 Oct 2026
Some books meet you differently each time you return to them. I think I’ll keep returning to this book at different stages of my life. Each time, perhaps, it will have something new to tell me. A quiet, beautiful reminder. A must-read.
29 Oct 2026
Directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia, with cinematography by Dev Agarwal (@devagarwal_dp), Ghamassan unfolds in the ravines of Bundelkhand, exploring themes of conflict, landscape and human resilience.
Dev Agarwal shot the feature on Cooke Anamorphic/i FF lenses, using scale, texture and light to create a visual world that feels larger than life.
We sat down with the DOP to explore his visual approach, the challenges of capturing Bundelkhand's rugged landscape, and what made Cooke the right choice for the film.
Read the full conversation now, link below
https://cookeoptics.com/news-and-events/ghamasaan-finding-the-soul-of-the-ravines/
#Cooke #CookeAnamorphic #CookeLenses #Arri #devagarwal
28 Oct 2026
GHAMASAAN - The intimacy of a close-up
Sometimes, a face tells you more than an entire landscape. In Ghamasaan, these frames became moments of observation, where a glance, a silence, or the slightest shift in expression could carry the weight of an entire scene.
Shot on ARRI ALEXA Mini LF with Cooke Anamorphic/i Full Frame lenses and the Angénieux Optimo 42–420mm anamorphic zoom lens.
#Ghamasaan #DevAgarwal #Cinematography #DirectorOfPhotography #indiancinema
10 Oct 2026
From BTS to the final frame. 🎬❤️
Some shots stay with you—not just because of how they look, but because of the people and memories behind them.
This one is especially close to my heart because of Jatin Goswami, my batchmate and friend from FTII.
Jatin brought incredible intensity and truth to the character, and watching that performance come alive in front of the camera was truly special.
Shot on ARRI ALEXA Mini LF with Cooke Anamorphic/i Full Frame lenses.
BTS → Final Frame.
The chaos behind the camera, the magic that remains on screen.
#DevAgarwal #Cinematography #BehindTheScenes #ARRIAlexaMiniLF #CookeOptics
23 Sep 2026
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