Preoccupation
Creativity has always been a compulsive urge for him since childhood. As a young child, Akhter took inspiration from nature and grew up loving, observing, and capturing its mesmerizing spirit in the form of drawings and paintings. His childhood interest in art foreshadowed an artistic future.
Over the years Akhter has developed as an artist and photographer. Because of his zest for experimentation with different techniques, today he uses combination of the best of the three worlds, photography, digital technology and traditional paints. Sometimes his creativity starts with pixels and later he blends pigments and pixels before the final product gets printed on canvas.
He has been able to strike a perfect balance between his profession as an Orthodontist and his pre-occupation with art. He is currently serving as the Professor and Head, Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics at Yenepoya University, India.
Human faces always inspired him. He saw art in creating beautiful smiles and correcting facial deformities.
With his deft fingers that deal with wires and pliers in Orthodontics, paint brushes over canvas or his passion for photography. He sometimes jokes saying “Orthodontics is his occupation and art is his preoccupation”.
His new passion is medical art depicting various life processes and physiologic aspects of the human body. His work has always been appreciated for profoundness, trendiness and articulation.
His work has been portrayed in numerous art exhibitions held across India and Netherlands where he is pursuing his PhD on Smile Dynamics.
Dr.Akhter has won several National and international accolades and honors in the field of photography. He is also an associate of the Royal Photographic Society, London.
Akhter lives in Mangalore, India with his wife Hasina, and three daughters, Thaniya, Zoya and Riya.
AWARDS
Visual Arts
Associate of the Royal Photographic Society
UK
Finalist
The Prix de la Photographie, Paris
2007
Finalist
International Mazda Photo Contest
February 2004
Honorable Mention In Two Categories
Adobe Digital Imaging Competition
2004
IIIrd Commonwealth Photo Award
Selected out of 700 photographs worldwideFunded by the Commonwealth Foundation and sponsored by Commonwealth broadcasting Association
Honorable mention
Adobe Digital Imaging Competition, Photo Illustration Section
2004
Ist Prize
Love Tarnished, In category of concept
November 2009
3 Bronze Awards
For the Photography Competition held by the 6th Better Photography Magazine, In category of concept
November 2009
Recognition Certificate
For the Photography Competition held by Light Space & time Online Art Gallery, Jupitor, Florida, USA
September 2012
Sky Is The Limit
Annual Art of Digital Show, San Diego, USA
September 2007
Winner in two categories
Epson Color Imaging Contest, Japan
2005
Winner
Motion and speed, AGFA International Photo Contest, GermanyEpson Color Imaging Contest, Japan
2003
Honorable Mention
Computer-Enhanced Category, Great Picture Contest, Conducted by the Popular Photography, New York (A wrinkle in time)
January 2000
Travel Photographer of the Year 2004
Konika Minolta published by Better Photography
August 2004
Winner
Maruti Esteem Photo Contest
1999
Honorable Mention
Professional category in International Photo Award (IPA), Los Angeles
2004
Completed the Immediate Life Support (ILS) Provider Course
HITC, HMC, Hamad International Centre, Doha, Qatar
4th February 2011
Silver Award
For the Photography Competition held by the 6th Better Photography Magazine Photograph of the year competition
July 2012
Ist Prize
Lights and Shades of Science - in the National Photography Competition Photograph of the year competition
July 2012
Secured IInd Place
In the Photography Competition as part of - The Eye donation Awareness Fortnight Conducted by Department of Ophthalmology, Yenepoya University
September 2013
Awarded MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL FOTO AWARDS (MIFA) Honorable Mention
Title : Bhoota Kola, spirit workshop under the category : "People-Culture" by the jury of Moscow International Foto Awards Is a prestigious advocate for international photography talent, conducted an annual competition
November 2014
ACCEPTANCES
Accepted
Image 95, All India Salon
March 1995
Accepted
The Photographic Society of India, Mumbai
February 1997
Accepted
AIP Nature Salon
Indian Orthodontic Society
Accepted
The Photographic Society of India, Mumbai
1995
MEMBER
Accepted
46th All India Photographic Society of India
December 1997
Soft waters : III MPA
All India Salon of Photography, Mysore
February 1999
CORE COMMITTEE MEMBER
Asian Pacific Orthodontic Conference ( held on 29th Nov.2012 to 2nd Dec.2012)
Delhi
Accepted
S.C. Maithra Memorial Salon (Lens n Eye)
1996
Accepted
Sumanth Moolgaonker Salon
1995
Art and Photography
Appeared in Doordarshan TV National Broadcast
1995
IIIrd Place
3 competition, Youth Services and Cultural Activities, Gujarat
April 1997
Two Acceptances
AHSI (Bronze), Calcutta
1997
Three Acceptances
Karnataka Lalith Kala Academy Competition
December 1997
FIP
Nature Salon, Mumbai
February 1997
Accepted
IIIrd All India Salon of Photography 1995 Photo Lovers of Madhya Pradesh, Mumbai
1995
Four Acceptances
2nd Lens n Eye, International Salon of color slides, Mumbai
1995
Accepted
Appeared in LIP ( Leading Indian Personalities ) on the net
1996
Two Acceptances
Ist All India Salon (Glimkpse Photographers Association)
1995
SHOWS
One man show held at:
- Chitrakala Parishat, Bangalore
- Habitat Centre, New Delhi
- City walk, Saketh, New Delhi
- Radboud University, Netherlands
- Basel, Switzerland