About Us – Free Passport Photo | freepassportphoto.in
Our Story

Built in India.
For every Indian.

We are a husband-and-wife team from Kolkata who got tired of paying for something that should be free — and decided to build it ourselves.

10K+ Photos created
73+ Countries supported
100% Free, always
0 Photos stored

A frustrating afternoon at the passport office

It started the way most real ideas do — with a problem we ran into ourselves. When we were getting our passports done, we needed a simple 2×2 inch photo with a plain white background. Sounds straightforward, right?

"We searched online for a free tool to fix our photo. Every good one wanted us to pay, create an account, or download an app just to crop a picture. The free ones were cluttered with ads, added watermarks, or simply did not work on mobile. We thought — someone should build a simple, honest version of this for people in India. So we built it ourselves."

Neither of us had a formal background in software development — we are entirely self-taught. What we had was time, determination, and a genuine desire to make something useful for people across India who face the same struggle every time they need a passport photo, an Aadhaar update, a PAN card application, or a government exam form.

We started with just one tool — a basic passport photo maker. Over time, we added an image compressor, a resizer, a converter, a country-specific photo guide, and an exam photo generator tailored specifically for Indian competitive exams like UPSC, SSC, IBPS, and Railway recruitments.


A husband and wife from Kolkata

📍 Kolkata, West Bengal, India

We are Md. Shaquib and Shagufta Aziz, based in Kolkata, West Bengal. We are not a tech company, a startup, or a funded business. We are just two people who wanted to build something genuinely helpful — and kept going because we saw it was actually making a difference for real people.

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Md. Shaquib
Founder & Developer
Self-taught developer who built all the tools on this site from scratch. Handles everything from the passport photo generator to the image processing features and overall site performance.
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Shagufta Aziz
Co-Founder & Content
Handles the design, content, and accuracy of the site. Makes sure every guide, tool description, and photo requirement is clear, up to date, and genuinely useful for real users.

Simple tools should be free and honest

There is a basic unfairness in how most photo tools work online — they are either paid, or technically free but buried under pop-ups, watermarks, and tricks that make them practically unusable. We wanted to build something different.

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Your privacy matters
All photo processing happens inside your own browser. We never upload, store, or see your photos. Once you close the tab, your image is gone.
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Built for India
Our tools cover Aadhaar, PAN, UPSC, SSC, IBPS, and Railway exam requirements — things most foreign tools completely ignore.
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Works on any phone
Most of our users are on a mobile phone. Every tool is built to work smoothly on basic Android devices, even on slow connections.
No tricks, no watermarks
No features hidden behind a paywall. No watermarks, no registration, no email capture. Download your photo and you are done.

We are still learning — and improving

We update this site regularly based on real user feedback and changes in official photo requirements across India. If you find an error, have a suggestion, or just want to say hello — we genuinely read every message.

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