About The Artist

My name is Gajan Balan. I’m a photographer and director based in Toronto. To me, cameras are passports and photography is time travel. My visuals are an exercise in world-building that moves across portraiture, fashion, street, and documentary.

This approach has earned me multiple awards, gallery exhibitions, publications, and an ambassadorship with Leica Camera. It sends me across the globe and has allowed me to cultivate a worldwide family of trusted partners. My time is now divided between crafting meaningful visuals for commercial clients and highlighting humanistic stories that draw deep inspiration from my culture and heritage.

Quite simply, my purpose is to travel the world, create compelling stories, and look to inspire the next generation of creatives.

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Beyond The Work

It was never enough for me to pursue the lifestyle of an artist. I wanted to cultivate an audience of creatives to share this journey with and drive them to produce their finest work. For over five years, I’ve been sharing my creative process, insights on our tools of the trade, and the lessons learned from adventures around the world..

That consistency has garnered nearly 50,000 YouTube subscribers, over 200,000 monthly views on Instagram, and built a newsletter of 20,000 monthly readers. This is the byproduct of authentic storytelling and a commitment to transparency.

The goal isn’t to attract a massive following and retreat into a hollow influencer lifestyle. Hell no. It’s about sharing the highs and lows of the working creative to spark something in the next generation of storytellers. My belief is that in helping them find their vision, I’ll be able to elevate my own.