Tashi Tobgyal
Photojournalist, The Indian Express
Mr. Tashi Tobgyal is a photojournalist with the Indian Express newspaper. He has worked at this well-respected daily for over ten years, covering a wide range of topics. In addition to daily news and political reports, he focuses on rural India, education, the environment, wildlife, health, development, and social issues.
Throughout his career, Mr. Tobgyal has reported on significant events, including the Uttarakhand tragedy, the floods in Kashmir, and the rat-hole coal mining in Meghalaya. His work on the latter earned him the prestigious Media Foundation of India (MFI) award for photojournalism. He also covered the recent Nepal earthquake.
Mr. Tobgyal graduated with degrees in Commerce and Social Work from Aligarh Muslim University. He is also a passionate writer and runs his own photojournalism blog, The Shutter Speed Journal. Currently, he is working on video documentaries and multimedia visual storytelling.
In 2008, he was nominated for the National Geographic All Roads photography award. In 2015, he received both the National Award and the Ramnath Goenka journalism award for his coverage of the Kedarnath tragedy and the Kashmir floods.