Born and raised in London, Sunhil earned an English Literature Degree from Georgetown University where upon graduation he won the Wagner Medal for Creative Writing. He moved to Mumbai in 1995 to pursue a career in Film and Advertising.

After directing commercials for over 20 years, his accidental foray into photography began as an “aimless” unravelling of a city with which he shared a complex history. Sunhil’s relationship with Mumbai has always been that of an outsider visiting a familiar place; a feeling that repeatedly seeps into his work from The Opium of Time to the forthcoming RACEDAY, a documentation of the Mahalakshmi Racecourse and its ecosystem, and the work-in-progress, Eastward, an exploration of the Eastern Seaboard of Mumbai.

This evolving dialogue with the city, its architecture, and its people has become more deliberate over the years, positioning him as a photographic archivist and a documentarian through projects with Bombaywallah, Film Heritage Foundation and Chatterjee & Lal. His practice extends further to Calcutta, through his long term photographic assignment with designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee.

He has also directed the 1999 indie feature Snip! which won the National Award for Best Editing, 2001. Sunhil lives in Mumbai and continues his explorations balancing his roles as a director, photographer and flâneur.