Adithya Sambamurthy
Adithya Sambamurthy is a photojournalist and documentary filmmaker based in Berkeley, California. He is currently completing dual Masters degrees in Journalism and International Relations at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to graduate school, he worked five years as a staff photojournalist at small and large newspapers around the US, and freelanced for publications in Europe and in India. While at the Graduate School of Journalism, he won a Student Emmy for producing the television magazine show Crossroads, and the Dorothea Lange Fellowship for Main Street California, a photo essay set along US Highway 99. His thesis documentary short Healthy. Happy. Holy., about the Anglo-American Sikh community of New Mexico earned him the Hearst Prize for Excellence in Documentary. Adithya was born in India and grew up in Germany and the United States. After graduation, he hopes to continue working as a photojournalist and documentary producer.
Adithya collaborated with Larissa Haida and Carola Mamberto on the Rocket City, USA documentary from Huntsville, Alabama.
