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Saumya Rai

Saumya Rai shares travel itineraries, food stops and stays through @vishusaumya and Road to Taste, alongside her photography work in Upstate New York.

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Overview

Based in: Albany, New York
Work: Travel creator and photographer
Travel platform: Road to Taste, with her husband Vishu
Signature series: Lucknow Meri Nazar Se
Recognition: Travel Influencer of the Year, Travel.Earth awards, 2019

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How it started.

Saumya began her professional life as an engineer in India. She and her husband Vishu started documenting their travels together, developing the travel and lifestyle platform Road to Taste. In their Traveldine interview, the couple linked her decision to leave corporate work with making Lucknow Meri Nazar Se.

A city through her eyes.

The 2017 web series Lucknow Meri Nazar Se explored Lucknow’s food, craft and history. The first episode credits Saumya and Vishu for the concept, script and hosting, and Saumya as creative director and a voice-over artist. In 2019, she won Travel Influencer of the Year at the Travel.Earth awards in Sabah, Malaysia.

Travel and photography.

After moving to the United States, the couple began sharing New England explorations alongside their India travel stories. Saumya also runs Just Shoot With Saumya in Albany, photographing weddings, proposals, portraits and family milestones. Her travel storytelling informs the attention she gives to light, surroundings and small details in her photography.

Creditschronological, newest first

2017Lucknow Meri Nazar Se: Episode 1, Old LucknowCo-concept, co-script, co-host, creative director and voice-over

Awards

Travel Influencer of the Year2019 · Travel.Earth Digital Influencers Convention and Awards, Sabah, Malaysia. Awarded to Saumya Rai of Road to Taste.

Quotes

I love to capture moments and turn them into stories.Saumya Rai, Just Shoot With Saumya

From her official biography, describing her approach to photographing weddings.

Trivia

She says good music and good coffee help keep her moving.
In their Traveldine interview, Vishu said Saumya prefers mountains while he prefers beaches, so they alternate their trips.
The couple described Ladakh as their first big trip after their honeymoon.