Shivam is nothing short of brilliant when it came to assisting me around Kolkata. He knows the area very well. He had great suggestions on where to go and was able to take me to places that are out of the way and places that you just never thought existed in Kolkata. I love the way Shivam communicated with the people and the people who’s portrait I wanted to photograph. He is able to build rapport quickly. He is very respectful of the people that I wanted to photograph and he was also very respectful of me, my time and how we went about taking photos of people in the street.
-Jake Pandermann