Nothing is cropped
Every photograph is reproduced at its native proportions. No image on this website is cropped, stretched or trimmed to suit a layout — the layout is built around the photograph rather than the other way round.
08 Media & Gallery
Five plates from the photographic record.
Presented at scale rather than as a grid of thumbnails. Select any plate to view it enlarged.
Plate I
Public appearance.
The photographic record of a senior executive is unusual in the luxury industry: it is largely made in public, at moments when the subject is representing an organisation rather than herself.
Captions on this page describe what is visible in each photograph. They do not assert the occasion, location or the identity of other people present unless that information is legible in the image itself.
I Public appearance — white tailored suit
Plates II & III
Evening engagements.
Two photographs made at public evening occasions, reproduced at their native proportions.
II Red carpet appearance
III Evening engagement
Plate IV
Plate four
IV Public engagement — formal interior
V Arriving at a public engagement
Plate V
On the record.
Photographs of chief executives in the luxury industry sit in an unusual category. They are neither editorial fashion imagery nor conventional corporate portraiture, and they carry some of the weight of both.
The subject is representing an organisation whose entire proposition concerns appearance, proportion and self-presentation. The photograph is therefore read with a particular attention, and it becomes, in a small way, part of the institutional record of the house.
Use of images
The photographs on this page are reproduced for the purpose of this website's
editorial record. They are presented at their native proportions with no
cropping applied.
Notes on the archive
How this archive is assembled, and why it is small.
A deliberately narrow selection, presented large. The alternative — a dense grid of small repeated thumbnails — would show more and say less.
The photographic record of a senior luxury executive accumulates differently from that of a designer or a public performer. It is made almost entirely at professional occasions, by press photographers working quickly, in conditions the subject does not control. There is very little of what a portrait photographer would call a sitting, and a great deal of what a picture desk would call arrivals.
This produces an archive with a particular character. The images are candid without being informal. They record presence at events rather than personality, and they are useful precisely because of that restraint: they document a public professional role rather than attempting to interpret a private person.
The editorial decision here has been to present a small number of photographs at scale rather than a large number at thumbnail size. Reproduced large, each image can be read — the tailoring, the setting, the register of the occasion. Reduced to a grid, the same photographs become interchangeable, and the distinctions between them, which are the only interesting thing about them, disappear.
Captions describe, they do not assert
Each caption states what can be seen in the frame. Occasions, locations and the identity of other people present are not named unless that information is legible within the photograph itself.
The archive is open
Additional verified photographs can be added to this page. Enquiries regarding image use, attribution or additions should be directed to the contact listed on this website.
- Contact
- Mr. Digant Sharma
- Telephone
- +91 97699 99960
- im@digantsharma.com