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Turnagain Arm, Alaska — snow peaks above still blue water

TCreations — Nature & Wildlife Photography

Chasing Light Across the Wild

I'm Tirthankar Chakraborty. I photograph glaciers, coastlines and creatures that most people only ever read about — and bring them home as prints you can live with.

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61.2181° NAlaska, USA
An abandoned mining cabin below Alaskan peaks
Travellers walking up a golden grass hillside
0+ Years in
the field

About the photographer

Some places don't ask to be photographed. They ask to be understood.

What began as one cold morning with a borrowed camera turned into a decade of walking toward weather instead of away from it — fjords at first light, storms rolling over ice fields, a bull elk that decided I wasn't worth standing up for.

Every frame here was made in the field. No composites, no borrowed skies. I shoot slow, print large, and care more about how a place felt than how many pixels it took. If that's the kind of work you're after, we'll get along well.

Tirthankar Chakraborty — TCreations
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Selected series

Bodies of work, not just pictures.

A storm breaking over a tidewater glacier
01

LandscapeAlaska

Ice & Silence

Days on the water waiting for the weather to break. It never did — and that turned out to be the whole story. Glaciers photographed the way they actually feel: cold, enormous, indifferent.

Two bull elk resting among fallen timber
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WildlifeField work

The Wild Ones

Long lenses, longer patience. Portraits of animals on their own terms — antlers, breath and weather — made from a distance that let them stay exactly as they were.

A harbour at sunset with palms in silhouette
03

TravelOn the road

Golden Hours

Harbours, ruins and roadside meadows caught in the twenty minutes a day when the light does all the work. The warm counterweight to the ice.

What I do

Ways we can work together.

01

Fine Art Prints

Museum grade paper, hand checked, signed and numbered. Sizes from a desk frame to a wall that stops conversation.

  • Archival pigment printing
  • Limited editions of 25
  • Worldwide shipping
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Editorial & Licensing

Images for magazines, books, campaigns and conservation work — licensed clearly, delivered fast, no surprises.

  • Print & digital rights
  • Full resolution masters
  • Same week turnaround
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Expedition Shoots

Come along, or send me somewhere. Multi day coverage of remote places, wildlife and the people who work there.

  • Location scouting
  • Wildlife & landscape
  • Full edit included
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Private Workshops

One to one field teaching. Composition, light, patience and post — the parts of this craft nobody puts in a manual.

  • 1:1 or small groups
  • Field & editing sessions
  • Portfolio review

Kind words

He came back with the picture we needed and four we didn't know we wanted. The glacier series ran across a full spread and the phone hasn't stopped.

Ananya MehtaEditor, Wander Quarterly

We hung three of his prints in the lobby. Guests photograph the photographs. That tells you everything about the quality of the work.

Rohan DeshpandeCreative Director, Northline Hotels

Two weeks in the field, brutal weather, not one complaint. Tirthankar reads light the way other people read a road sign.

Sarah WhitfieldProducer, Cold Coast Films
A turquoise fjord between green cliffs

Let's make something worth hanging.

Commissions, prints and licensing enquiries are open for the season.

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Get in touch

Tell me where you want to point the lens.

Prints, commissions, licensing, workshops — or just to say a photograph reminded you of somewhere. I answer every message myself, usually within a day.