1975 → today
One family.
Three generations.
One obsession.
This is not a company history. It's a family album — and every Chandra Digital client becomes part of it.
Satyanarayan & Chandrakala Sharma
The founders
Satyanarayan
ChandrakalaSatyanarayan Sharma fell in love with photography long before he could afford to practice it. By day he worked the textile mills of Ahmedabad. The camera had to wait for the evenings.
When the passion refused to fade, he made the kind of decision families still talk about fifty years later: he moved his children to the smaller city of Gandhinagar and bet on a small photo studio — Chandra Studio, 1975.
The early years ran on partnership. While he was away earning the family's livelihood, Chandrakala Sharma kept the studio alive and clicked the day's photographs herself. When he came home at night, he developed and printed them. Passport photos, mostly — photography's humblest product, made with total care.
What began with passport photos became the studio an entire city trusted. Satyanarayan went on to become the first president of the Gandhinagar Photography Association, and the studio's cameras have covered everyone from Prime Ministers to film stars.
That's why passport photos are still on our rate card today — $15. Some things are sacred.
Chandra Prakash & Gopal Sharma
The name-makers
Two brothers grew up inside that studio — and split the craft between them. Chandra Prakash Sharma is the creative mind: the one chasing a new idea every single day. Gopal Sharma is the technical head: networks, technology, advancement — the reason the studio has never once fallen behind the times.
Under them, Chandra Studio stopped being a shop and became an institution. Government works. Big institutions. Media coverage. Full studio setups. And the weddings of an entire region.
What their father started with passport photos, they built into a complete media business — and the family name became shorthand for quality and trust in the photography industry.
Chandra Prakash
GopalKunj & Shubham Sharma
The ocean-crossers
Shubhamsoon
The third generation runs the legacy on two continents. Shubham Sharma — elder son, operations and management head — runs the Indian business from Gandhinagar: the bookings, the staff, and a constantly widening scope.
Kunj Sharma — the younger son — arrived in Canada as a student with a camera and a family standard to keep. Today he operates Chandra Digital in Sudbury, Ontario, expanding the family's vision with the same promise made in 1975: your moments, treated like family.
Same family. Same obsession. Two time zones.
Visiting India? The original studio is still open — chandrastudio.in
Generation three is behind the camera