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Arvin Temkar

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Freelance Photojournalist | Former @ajcnews | Member @nppa @aajaofficial @diversifyphoto |📍ATL but soon DC

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2025 in pictures, from Atlanta, Plains, DC (and Guam). It’s a privilege to witness and document these moments. @ajcnews by @arvintemkar

Some photos from 2024. @ajcnews by @arvintemkar

Touristy tourist snaps from India, where I’ve spent the last couple weeks seeing family and sightseeing with my dad. It’s my first time back in the country in 25 years. by @arvintemkar

Bittersweet news: It’s my last day at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. For my next adventure, I’ll be moving to DC as a freelancer to chase my dreams of anxiety and instability.

But truly, the last 4.5 years have been some of the most transformative in my life. I forever owe my manager Sandra Brown and AJC leadership for taking a chance on me when I had little experience and was just finding my footing as a photojournalist.

Sandra showed me what strong leadership and advocacy for visuals looks like. My colleagues Natrice Miller, Hyosub Shin, Bob Andres, Miguel Martinez, Jason Getz, Steve Schaefer, Curtis Compton, John Spink, and Bita Honarvar taught me so much about how to be a photojournalist. Additionally, the larger photojournalism community in Atlanta has been incredibly supportive.

I’m grateful to all the reporters who were the best collaborators. And I’m grateful to all of the people who allowed me to be with them in good and bad times, to document meaningful and important stories.

I’m embarking on this new chapter because as I grow older I want to take some risks and see where life takes me. As my cranky old journalism professor Judith Crist used to say (while delivering scathing criticism), “Onward and upward.”

I’ll be heading to DC in November. Meanwhile, here are some pictures in which my hair and beard length fluctuate wildly.

Also plz subscribe to your local newspaper. @ajcnews by @arvintemkar

Some recent community photojournalism for @ajcnews spanning stories from all across the state on: a bamboo farmer, the 100-year-old driver of a Mustang convertible, the state Democratic convention, the sentencing of the Apalachee High School shooter, new jobs on Robins Air Force Base, Spelman College move-in day, a prominent high school football coach battling cancer and more. by @arvintemkar

What a gift to turn 40 in a dear city with dear friends and family. I turned 30 in San Francisco, now 40, and will hopefully keep the tradition going for a long time to come!

Last slide goes out to my besties in my other dear state, Georgia 😂 by @arvintemkar

A few minutes with Dark Matter actor Dayo Okeniyi outside the Atlanta Journal-Constitution offices 📸. @ajcnews @dayookeniyi by @arvintemkar

Entertainment and sports attorney John Rose, who at 33 is one of the youngest partners in Fox Rothschild’s 120-year history. @ajcnews by @arvintemkar

Savannah hotel selfie by @arvintemkar

James Fordham rides ArieForce One most days after work and often clocks 70 or so rides an evening, not to mention 130 rides a day on weekends.

“I don’t get food, I don’t get water, I don’t get tired,” he said. “Everybody says I’m not quite human. That’s probably true. When you’re on a mission, you do what you need to do.”

So now what?

✏️ Joe Kovac @ajcnews by @arvintemkar

President Donald Trump visits Wheeler High School in Marietta touting Trump Accounts for children and campaigning for Georgia Republicans running in the midterms. @ajcnews by @arvintemkar

Argentina beat England 2-1 in the World Cup semifinal in Atlanta. + People get mad and fight each other. by @arvintemkar