From offering tips like—”Determine whether you’re shooting a personality or shooting fashion,”—to knowing when to use proper metering to aid tonality of an image, Ash Gupta is indeed a skilled practitioner when it comes to photography. Gupta has shot several celebrities, countless fashion editorials, and magazine covers. Lately you can see his work with some of the biggest icons in the music industry, but with each shoot, whether a celebrity or just a person wanting a beautiful portrait, Gupta always treats each subject with special attention and care.

Lately Studio 838 has photgraphed Anya Monzikova (Get Out! and Deal or No Deal); Miss World (Ksenia Shukhinova), and a slew of breathtaking editorials, not to mention our own editor’s (Kaylene Peoples) cover shot.

“Wrapped in Beauty” Editorial: Maggy Barry’s Spring 2010 Designs Shot live by Ash Gupta Studio 838.

“The Other Me” editorial was photographed by Ash Gupta Studio 838.

For Ash Gupta and Studio 838, November was a month full of international flair. Ash continued his Venetian mask project with models Heather Burton and Jeri, the new face of Bebe Fragrance.

This is just a humble effort of a fashion photographer to help bring recognition to the extraordinary, but sometimes overlooked qualities of beauty that make up a face behind the painted eyes and dusted cheeks.

“I grew up in a family that held the belief that religion is a personal relation of a cultural expression, and wanted to embrace the community that embraced them. When we lived in Shipshewana (Indiana), we went to a Mennonite church; and in India, we went to temple.”—Pratima Anae

I grew up in Canada, but spent my early childhood in Grenoble, France, a beautiful city at the foothills of the French Alps.