Shamanth Patil J is an award-winning architecture and interior photographer based in Bengaluru, with over 17 years of professional experience documenting spaces across India and, increasingly, overseas.
He founded Rays & Greys in 2009, a multidisciplinary photography practice built around architecture, interior design, product, and people. In recent years his focus has narrowed toward architectural and interior photography — work shaped by an instinct for space, scale, light, and material, and the quiet relationship between people and the places they inhabit.
His path into photography began young and became formal training at Shari Academy of Photography, Mumbai, where he studied under the late photojournalist T.S. Satyan. Early in his career, his portrait Eyes Never Age won first prize at an international student photography competition — the start of five international awards within three years.
His work has been featured on the cover of Elle Decor and in Architectural Digest India, alongside other national publications and design platforms overseas. He has photographed for leading architecture and design practices across the country, and his films — now a growing part of the practice — bring the same eye for space and material into motion.
Rays & Greys is currently based in Bengaluru and available for architectural and interior photography commissions across India and worldwide.