N. Sukumar, APSA

N. Sukumar, APSA

I am a scientist, photographer, conservationist, wilderness enthusiast and educator. I was born in Calcutta, India, obtained my Ph.D. in chemistry from Stony Brook, New York, and have worked in the US, India and Germany, having spent about half my life in the US and half in India. My wife, Sunanda, was also a chemist and educator. After returning from the US to India, I founded the chemistry department at Shiv Nadar University and taught there for a decade before retiring recently. I now live on a mountain in the Himalayas.

I have served as president, webmaster and chair of the Slide and Fine Arts groups at the Schenectady Photographic Society, as well as Editor of its Newsletter, the FOCUS. I am also served as Program Chair and 2nd Vice-Chair of CPID and webmaster of CPID and the Nature Division in PSA. I have exhibited at several galleries in the USA, presented programs at PSA and other international conventions, and been published in art magazines and the PSA Journal. My main photographic subjects are nature, landscape, travel and the human figure. I am fascinated with abstracts and the indirectly perceived. I also paint in pastels and oils, and enjoy both wet and digital darkroom work.

You can see my work on: Flickr album or Quo vadis blog or Blurb books