Bombay based Bollywood famous Photographer / Director Colston JULIAN has no formal training in Photography. He was trained as a Film Cinematographer in Mumbai Under Ko Hung CHAING and went on to assisted Prabuddha Das Gupta, Max VADUKUL and Ashok SALIAN.
Colston is constantly inspired with urban landscape and lifestyles. He says, he finds beauty within the chaos. Born and brought up in Mumbai or Bombay as he remembers it, Colston has worked with clients like Omega, L'Oreal, Adidas, Puma, Apple, Mercedes, Sony ,Levis and shot editorials for Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, Grazia, GQ and Marie Claire. He enjoys photographing people and spend time getting to know them and make images and environmental portraits of them.
Rohit SHARMA, Virat KOHLI, Jasprit BUMRAH, Shane WARNE, Sachin TENDULKAR . Olympians : Mary KOM, Vinesh PHOGAT, Neeraj CHOPRA . Actors : Amitabh BACHCHAN, Judi DENCH, Lily SINGH, John TRAVOLTA, Shahrukh KHAN, Deepika PADUKONE, Priyanka CHOPRA, Nawazuddin Siddiqui . Musicians : Buddy GUY, A R REHMAN, Anoushka SHANKAR, are a few of the celebrities he has worked with.
As a director he has created long format television commercial for Zegna, Addidas, The Quarry, Jaipur Jewels, Awas , shopperstop , Anita dongre by Zoya Tanishq Arvind mills and fashion films for designer Nimish SHAH label shift and 11:11.
He works globally and is an avid adventure sports person, loves mountain biking and diving .
Colston’s aim is to neither conform nor belong but simply offer a point of view that is his own.