An alumnus of the Departments of English at RKMRC, Narendrapur and Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and a teacher by profession, Sandipan Mukherjee has been a freelance-contributor to The Times of India, The Statesman, The Hindustan Times, The Asian Age and Bhraman. His photographs have featured in several international publications and won awards and recognition from numerous esteemed organizations and events in India and abroad, like Better Photography, Gujarat Lalit Kala Academy, Asian Development Bank, People and Planet (Australia), TNT Magazine (UK), Snowden (Australia), CIWEM (UK), SPIE (USA), Water Integrity Network (Germany) and the Sony World Photography Awards. As the winner of the prestigious Wanderlust Travel Photo of the Year (2013) Contest organized by the Wanderlust Magazine (UK), Sandipan earned a 9-day long customized Photo Trip to Jordan, sponsored entirely by the Jordan Tourism Board who also presented the photos from that tour in a widely-acclaimed solo exhibition at ICCR, Kolkata. Sandipan is the author of 'On Broken Trails', a critically acclaimed book on Nubra Valley, including the Balti areas of the north west. He has several group exhibitions and three solo exhibitions to his credit.
