Bhagavad Sambadha was born on 2 December 1986 in Jakarta. He has been interested in and learned photography autodidactically since high school. Social and urban issues always excite him, and he lived nomadically in different cities for a few years before getting married and settling in Jakarta. He has worked as an Assessment Officer in various disaster management organizations, as well as a freelance photographer for a few documentary projects and NGOs. Since 2017 to present, he works as a photographer for online media Tirto.id.