Nilangana “Olive” BanerjeePHOTOGRAPHER

Nilangana Banerjee (Olive) is a Los Angeles based photographer, born in Mumbai, India. She currently lives in Los Angeles and holds a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from New York Film Academy, Los Angeles. She completed her Bachelors in Still Photography and Audio-VisualProduction in Mumbai, India and her first Master’s degree is in Commercial  Photography from Ooty, India. She started photography as her profession, due to her intense passion for the medium since childhood. Her academic degrees in photography have created a deep conviction towards her photographic ambition.  After her schooling, she had specialized in Industrial, Architectural and  Interior, Portraiture, and Conceptual Fashion Photography.

She mastered the science and art of the photographic world under the guidance of eminent stalwarts in the field of photography. During her academic studies and as a commercial photographer, her work has gained immense praise and appreciation from reputed photographic institutions, companies, and various publications.  She has been published in ROIDX Paris  (Nov. 2020), HORIZONT Magazine (Oct. 2020),  GMARO (June 2020), FADDY ITALY Magazine (Aug. 2020), MOB JOURNAL (Sep. 2020), and many more. She was also interviewed and featured in the MEDIUM, TINSELTOWN NEWS NOW,  SHOUTOUT LA, under the LA’s most inspiring stories, published by the editorial VoyageLA (Dec. 2018).

She was interviewed and featured by the Indo-American  Newspaper the India Journal (USA), 2018 for being an Indian-LA-based photographer and an artist. In 2016, she was featured in VICE Magazine for her shooting of the LA-based Middle Eastern Fusion food event, BIRDS. Later, she also got published in a book for being the principal photographer and Art Director for LEXICON Media, The  ‘Paleosecret’, in 2017. Her photographs were also a part of the most reputed global photographic exhibitions and galleries in and around Los Angeles, Portland including New York, Brooklyn at the Photoville 2017.

She also has experience working in the Editorial Fashion and Beauty industry in LA, by commercially working for many reputed fashion brands, such as Forever 21, Nordstrom, GLAM LA, Rilakumma Beauty, Walmart, Urban Outfitters, Jill  Roberts, Honorine, Beauty Influence, Hanhoo, Masqueology, Ross, Olivia Care, Dr. Skin  Feed, etc. Currently, she is the In-house Beauty/Product and Lifestyle and the Head Photographer for Beauty Architects in LA. In concert with her professional expertise, she has also nurtured cultural pursuits in music: vocal,  instrumental, and painting. With the backdrop of California, she has ample opportunities to fulfill and sustain her hobbies and passion for photography and attain her never-ending satiation of cultural expanse.

SNAPSHOT
Program Studied at NYFA: Photography
Program Type: MFA in Photography
Year Graduated: 2017
Location: Los Angeles