In India , only a handful of artist-photographers are still continuing the legacy of this genre and tradition.Rajesh Soni as one of them is the 3rd generation descendant of skilled artist- photographers. His grandfather Prabhu Lal Soni (1905-1958) had worked as a court photographer and painter for the late Maharana Shri Bhupal Singh of Mewar in Udaipur.He passed down his skills of hand-painting to his son, Lalit, who himself passed them down to his son Rajesh.