She named the school Shakti Empowerment Education Foundation (SEEschool.org) and currently educates around 300 youth, both girls and boys and provides women with literacy and vocational training, as well as microfinancing, and continues as the school's Executive Director. After high school, Indrani met Markus Klinko, a classical harpist, who became a regular collaborator and the two began their photography careers as the photography duo known as Markus + Indrani. According to Fast Company, "When Markus Klinko and Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri teamed up...both were already stars--Klinko as a classical harpist and Indrani as a fashion model. Now they are famous for their iconic images." Indrani received a scholarship to Princeton University where she studied cultural anthropology, while advancing her career as a photographer in NYC. A passionate advocate of Indian culture, at Princeton she reinstated the study of Sanskrit, and led a student initiative to create a program in South Asian Studies. She graduated with a magna cum laude (with High Honors) AB in Anthropology. Indrani has won acclaim as a photographer, a director, director of photography and producer of films and commercials. Films which Indrani has directed and produced have won numerous awards including the Tribeca Film Festival Disruptive Innovation Award 2019, Best Picture at the CNN 2018 Expose Awards, presented by Quincy Jones, and two gold lions at Cannes. She won first prize in four categories at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival 2015 for "Best Picture," "Best Visual Effects," "Best Costumes" and "Best Production Design"; "Best Film," "Best Director" and "Best Design" at the London Fashion Film Festival 2015, "Best of Festival" at the Princeton Film Festival, 2015, "Best Film" at the International Fashion Film Festival Los Angeles 2015, first prize in the top four categories at the International Fashion Film Festival at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, including "Best Film," "Best Director," "Best Fashion," "Best Special Effects" and the RED Camera Award. While Indrani was a student at Princeton, David Bowie and Iman discovered her photography and commissioned her first album cover for "Heathen" and "I am Iman" with Klinko. Indrani's fashion work was discovered by Isabella Blow, known for discovering some of the fashion world's most important figures including Alexander McQueen, Philip Treacy and John Galliano, who commissioned cover stories for the London "Sunday Times".