Harshit Dwivedi

Founder & CEO Aftershoot

Last Reviewed: September 18, 2026

Executive Summary

Harshit Dwivedi is the founder and chief executive of Aftershoot, an AI platform built around a specific and well-documented form of professional misery: the hours a photographer spends after a shoot making the same small judgements thousands of times. A wedding photographer typically returns with several thousand frames, of which a few hundred will be delivered, and the work of choosing between near-identical images and then applying a consistent edit to all of them is repetitive, unpaid and unavoidable. Aftershoot automates it — culling first, then editing in the photographer’s own style, then retouching and client delivery. Dwivedi, a developer, founded the company in 2020 with Justin Benson, a working wedding photographer who became co-founder and chief product officer and whose description of sitting on 5,000 photos after a wedding is the company’s origin story. The product began as a 2019 Facebook post and grew through feedback from photographers before a demo at the WPPI trade show produced its first real momentum. By 2023 the company reported that photographers on the platform had collectively processed 5.4 billion images.

Career Highlights

• Co-founded Aftershoot in 2020 with Justin Benson, co-founder and chief product officer, and leads the company as CEO.
• Built the company out of a 2019 Facebook post and iterative feedback from working photographers, with early commercial traction from a demo at WPPI.
• Grew the platform to the point that, by 2023, photographers using it had collectively processed 5.4 billion images, with the company reporting savings of more than 31 workdays each.
• Expanded a single culling tool into a four-part suite covering culling, editing, retouching and client gallery delivery.
• Serves photographers across the professional range, from those shooting ten weddings a year to those shooting more than a hundred.
• Spoke at Devoxx 2018 in Antwerp, Belgium.
• Previously worked as a product engineer and instructor at Coding Blocks.

Professional Journey

Dwivedi came to Aftershoot from software rather than from photography. His earlier work was in development and developer education, including a role as a product engineer and instructor at Coding Blocks, and a speaking appearance at Devoxx in Antwerp in 2018 — a conference aimed squarely at working developers rather than at founders or executives.

The company began, as the founders tell it, with a conversation rather than a business plan. Justin Benson was a wedding photographer describing the same complaint every wedding photographer has: coming back from a shoot with several thousand images and making the same choices over and over, for days, before any of the creative work could begin. Dwivedi was the developer who thought the choices were learnable. The pairing matters to how the product turned out — culling is not a technical problem of image quality detection alone, because which of two nearly identical frames is the better one depends on judgements about expression, timing and the photographer’s own taste, and building that required a photographer inside the company rather than as a customer.

The project started publicly in 2019 with a Facebook post, and grew through direct engagement with photographers who tried early builds and said what was wrong with them. The company was founded in 2020. Early momentum came from a demonstration at WPPI, the wedding and portrait photography trade show, which put the tool in front of exactly the professionals it was built for.

Aftershoot has since broadened from culling into the rest of the post-production chain. The current product line covers Cull for selection, Edit for applying the photographer’s own editing style at scale, Retouch, and Galleries for client delivery — an attempt to occupy the whole span between the shoot and the client handover rather than one step in it. The company positions itself as aiming to be the default companion for every photographer, with the explicit framing that the value is returned time rather than better images.

Scale figures reported by the company give a sense of adoption: by 2023, photographers using the platform had collectively processed 5.4 billion images, with Aftershoot claiming an average saving of more than 31 workdays per photographer. Those are company-reported numbers and are not independently verified, but they indicate a product in broad professional use rather than a niche tool.

Education

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