Portfolio
A selection of features, talks, and mentions — from newspaper coverage of eclipse expeditions to a set of astrophotographs shared by the European Space Agency.
August 2026
Hindustan
Coverage of Shivam's third total solar eclipse expedition across three continents — after Exmouth, Australia (2023) and Columbus, Ohio (2024) — this time photographing totality from Priego, Spain, alongside fellow astrophotographer VCS Subramanyam.
April 2025
European Space Agency
A collection of ten of Shivam's astrophotographs — spanning the Sun, Moon, and planets — shared as a carousel post in collaboration with ESA's official Instagram account, reaching its audience of three million-plus followers.
April 2025
Lights of Cosmos Astrophotography Competition
Shivam's image "Shadow," a crescent-phase solar eclipse captured through a William Optics Z61 with a Daystar Quark chromosphere filter, was shortlisted in the Solar System category of the Lights of Cosmos astrophotography competition and exhibited in the winners' and guest gallery at Birla Planetarium.
February 2025
Shark Tank India
An aurora photograph captured in Iceland appeared on a pitch board during Season 4, Episode 32 of Shark Tank India, streaming on SonyLIV.
January 2024
TEDxAmity University Noida
An invited TEDx talk on the pursuit of eclipse photography: the planning, the travel, and the technical craft behind capturing totality.
Read at source ↗July 2023
ThePrint
A feature on India's small but growing astrophotography community, including Shivam's multi-filter, narrowband approach to imaging nebulae and galaxies hundreds of millions of light-years away.
April 2023
The Times of India
Coverage of a three-person expedition, alongside fellow astrophotographers Nihal S. Amin and Yash Soorma, to Exmouth, Australia, to observe the rare hybrid solar eclipse of April 20, 2023.
April 2023
NNAI (National News Agency of India)
Local and regional coverage of the April 2023 expedition to Exmouth, Western Australia, where Shivam and two fellow astrophotographers travelled over 8,000 km to photograph a rare hybrid solar eclipse.
October 2022
Dainik Jagran
Hindi-language coverage of Shivam's photographs of the October 2022 partial solar eclipse from Agra, resolving fine detail on the Sun's surface — the images went viral on Instagram.
