Talha was born in Pakistan and moved to New Jersey at the age of two. He studied Biomedical Engineering at NJIT, where he first picked up a camera. drawn initially to nature and family, then gradually to the broader world around him.

After graduating, he spent a year traveling through Japan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan, documenting what he encountered along the way. Those travels sharpened his eye and deepened his commitment to documentary work.

He went on to attend Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine, where he served as Director of Photography for Humans of Rowan SOM, a portrait project chronicling the lives and stories of people within the medical community. The experience cemented his focus on portrait and documentary photography as a serious, sustained practice.

His work sits at the intersection of place, identity, and everyday life, thereby creating honest images made with patience and care.