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<\/p>\nNikhil Tomar is a 21- year old freelance photographer and a consultant special educator. He has been working as a consultant teacher for children with disabilities since 2014. Nikhil completed his Diploma in Special Education (Mental Retardation) from National Institute of Mentally Handicapped in 2014. He also completed his Bachelor of Arts and received a scholarship during his college times. He has an unending passion for photography, traveling, art and teaching. Through his photography, he tries to bring out the best possible form of his artistic expressions.<\/p>\n
He has participated in various national and international photography competitions along with grants like Ian Parry Scholarship 2016, Getty Images Prestige Grant, 35 photo awards (Russia), Canon Photo Marathon, 24HourProject, etc. He exhibits fine knowledge of street, daily life, portraiture, travel, landscape photography, photo storytelling, painting and filming travel videos. His work has been recently published on various online platforms and selected for an exhibition also.<\/p>\n
Selected as an Ambassador for 24HourProject.
\nPhoto Selected for book cover of 24HourProject.
\nOne street photo has been recently featured in the Creative Image Magazine by Sir Raghu Rai- 2017
\nFour Photographs Exhibited in Indian Habitat Centre by Ministry of India- 2017<\/p>\n
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The most exciting thing about traveling is that it’s like a painting. Every time you are on a new journey it’s just like a fresh canvas which you will paint with all those magical colors of people, experiences, places, cultures, and emotions.<\/p>\n
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Travel Militia is the community I formed along with my elder brother Rahul Tomar last year. As the Name itself depicts it’s a community of like-minded travellers who are really bringing a positive change in traveling field. The main idea behind this community of ours is to make an eco-friendly and responsible traveling the main priority. We help bring together like-minded artists and travellers to share there experiences and stories to help other aspiring travellers to get benefits from experienced travellers and adventure professionals. The Main core team of Travel Militia is a bunch of very talented and most amazing travellers and artists. The core members are – Amit Vakil, Roshan, Kanwar, Nikhil Tomar, Rahul Tomar, Nitish Waila.<\/p>\n
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Well as I told earlier traveling is like a painting on a canvas you can never paint the same every time no matter how precise you are. So same is with traveling sometimes your experiences can be so beautiful and overwhelmingly full of magical memories and vice versa too. Because experiences are not in our control they are just there to be taken as they are no matter good or bad. It’s simply life and that is what makes traveling one of the most consolidated parts of life get experiences the more you travel the more you start craving for the real experiences.<\/p>\n
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Every place I have visited till date has its own pieces of favorites in my life but the most favorite one has been Losar (Spiti Valley). That place hit me right in the bloodstream of emotions which I can never express in words. I still remember that evening when the sunset engulfed my soul just like good God has given you his hand and took you along. This the place I promised to visit again and again. And hopefully, I am going there soon.<\/p>\n
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Well, the dream trip is to experience northern lights in Iceland and Norway. The Aurora borealis has fascinated me since childhood and this is really something want to gaze whole night.<\/p>\n
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