Kunal Kelkar

Kunal Kelkar

Kunal Kelkar is one of India’s leading automotive photographers and is the co-founder of a creative house, “The Autofocus.”

The Autofocus specializes in creating unique and appealing content for the automotive industry. He has been carving his way through the automotive industry by creating photo and video content that is unmatched even at global levels.

After switching his world from molecular and cell biology, Kunal went after his two passions, photography and cars. Kunal works with a wide array of clients, not just locally but internationally too. His list includes brands such as Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Rimac Automobili, Zenvo Automotive and many more. Kunal stands by Sir William Lyons quote that, “The automobile is the closest thing we will create to something that is alive,” and that the effort that man puts in to create this masterpiece of engineering should be celebrated by showcasing the beautiful design in the most unique way possible.

His style can be defined as “Refined Reality,” where he does use some post production to enhance the reality of the images captured. His work takes him all over the world, capturing automobiles in various locations.

Most of Kunal’s work is for the commercial space, images are used in campaign commercials for print and digital promotions.

TESTIMONIAL

My travels and my documentary work involves interacting with people and being unobtrusive while also keeping weight and bulk of my equipment to a minimum. All these factors combined with excellent image characteristics made me jump into the Fuji system with the X100S in 2013. Over the next few years, I travelled extensively with it and eventually, completely switched form DSLRs to the Fujifilm Mirrorless system. I now use them exclusively for all my work. For me the X System gets out the way and allows the photographer to actualize the vision while at the same time provides the quality and technological support needed for professional work. The design and usability makes the cameras invisible and helps it to gel well with documentary and travel photography to the point that I think it becomes an extension of the eye.

GEARS

X-Pro2

X-T1

XF14mmF2.8 R

XF23mmF2 R WR

XF35mmF1.4 R