About Us

About Fotocafe Studios

Fotocafe Studios is in Hyderabad. It is owned and run by me, Ganshyam Ramchandanni.

I have been shooting since 1984.

I started with advertising and industrial assignments. Factories, machines, products, people at work. The kind of work where you get one chance and the client is standing behind you. That work taught me discipline.

Along with that, I have always shot stock photography. For years, my images have sold through major stock libraries around the world. I have won many awards from those libraries for sales. Not for beauty, for sales. Because my photos were used, again and again, by real buyers.

I have also shot coffee table books for major companies like Nagarjuna Fertilizers, MCEME, AP Tourism, and Karnataka Tourism. Those books took me to places I would have never gone otherwise. Dams, factories, temples, villages, ports. I have travelled a lot. And I have too many stories to tell.

In between, I ran a retouching house for USA studios for more than a decade. It was like a software outsourcing company. More than a dozen artists working day and night, retouching images for American studios while America was sleeping. That is how I learned what international clients really want.

And I teach.

I have taught photography to students from ISB. I have also taught street kids and school children. For me, there is no difference. If a child wants to learn how to see, I will teach. A camera does not ask for your degree.

Fotocafe Studios today is a mix of all this. Old film knowledge, new digital work, stock, teaching, and stories from my dad's studio in the 70s.

If you have an old photo to restore, a product to shoot, a book to make, or just want to learn photography, come and talk to us.

We don't just take photos. We make photos that work.

Ganshyam Ramchandanni

Fotocafe Studios, Hyderabad