Sohail Akbar is an Associate Professor of Still Photography at the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia University, New Delhi. Apart from teaching he practices and researches photography. His areas of interest include personal photo albums and family archives. He is also a practicing photographer who has photographed extensively for the development sector in India. He has exhibited in two solo exhibitions in Delhi. Nazraana: A Tribute to Life is a photo book of his collection of work. 

Sohail Akbar lectures and conducts workshops on photography at various institutions in the country and has contributed to the development of curriculum for courses that teach photography at school and university levels. He has published articles related to the practice of photography and also has literary interests in poetry and literature.

In recent years, he has combined photography with his interest in the environment and pursues wildlife photography with a specific interest in birds, hoping to create awareness about avian life through his pictures.