About
Wildlife photography is a passion and a means of artistic expression for me, as both, a lover of nature and as a designer. I grew up on the outskirts of Chennai, surrounded by nature and wildlife, waking to the sounds of sparrows, catching dragonflies, exploring monsoon-soaked fields, chasing fish and frogs when the streams overflowed. Experiences that shaped my love of the wild open spaces that we have since lost.
I am a 2nd generation Landscape Architect, with a Bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of New South Wales, Australia. This avenue of professional art combined with my lifelong love of nature and wildlife found new expression in photography. From the moment I picked up my first DSLR in 2013 and began to reconnect with the wild, I knew that this was a siren call that would always tug at my soul.
To me, photography is the art of telling a story without words and through my images I try to bring those stories to life. Stories that convey a sense of place, of scale and context, the emotion of a moment, the awe of a spectacle, of love, of struggle, of life and death. Through these images I hope to kindle an interest in the wild, a curiosity to know more about the natural world, to bolster conservation and to challenge a new generation to get out there and explore the wonders of our planet.
AWARDS
2023
ND AWARDS
Title: Prickly Proposition
Award: Honourable Mention
Year: 2023
Location: Thar Desert, India
While looking for snakes and lizards on the side of an unlit road, we came across the slow-moving hedgehog. I had a friend hold a torch behind it, the light catching its spines and whiskers, allowing me to make a rim-lit image before it ambled off to safety.
Epson International Pano Awards
Title: The Lion King
Award: Silver
Year: 2023
Location: Thar Desert, India
This magnificent male lion was traversing the grasslands, heading towards a kopje. I drove ahead and waited for his arrival and he disappeared into the thicket at the base of the kopje. I was hoping that he would emerge again, maybe even at the top of the tallest rock and switched to a wide-angle lens in expectation. Moments later he emerged, a quintessential alpha lion moment, surveying his lands, the wind stirring his mane.
2021
Monochrome Awards
Title: Zebra Crossing
Award: Honourable Mention
Year: 2021
Location: Ndutu, Tanzania
Under the gathering grey storm clouds, I watched from a small hillock as a herd of zebras crossed a shallow lake in the valley below. They stretched single file, as they crossed the water, silhouetted against the bright water and framed by the dark rolling landscape.
Nature’s Best Photography Asia
Title: One for the Road
Award: Highly Honored Birds
Year: 2021
Location: Ranganathittu, India
From a rowboat I tracked this spot-billed pelican as it swooped in low over the water, neck extended, bill agape, to scoop a bill full of water to carry back to its chicks in the nest. As the water rushed in and filled its membranous gular sac, the force of the rushing water caused its head to snack back under its body, before straightening back out as it flew on.
2020
Nature's Best Photography International Awards: African Wildlife
Title: Clash of the Titans
Award: Highly Honored Winner
Year: 2020
Location: Ndutu, Tanzania
On the edge of Lake Ndutu, I had exited the acacia forests on the hillock and exploring the plains when I found this pair of massive bull elephants. They were engaged in battle that slowly built up as each pushed and bulldozed the other, until they came together in a cloud of dust, entwined trunks and clashing tusks.
2019
Epson International Pano Awards
Title: CLASH OF THE TITANS
Award: Silver
Year: 2019
Location: Ndutu Conservation Area, Tanzania
On the edge of Lake Ndutu, I had exited the acacia forests on the hillock and exploring the plains when I found this pair of massive bull elephants. They were engaged in battle that slowly built up as each pushed and bulldozed the other, until they came together in a cloud of dust, entwined trunks and clashing tusks.
One Eyeland Awards
Title: ONE FOR THE ROAD
Award: Honourable Mention
Year: 2019
Location: Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary, Karnataka, India
From a rowboat I tracked this spot-billed pelican as it swooped in low over the water, neck extended, bill agape, to scoop a bill full of water to carry back to its chicks in the nest. As the water rushed in and filled its membranous gular sac, the force of the rushing water caused its head to snack back under its body, before straightening back out as it flew on.
ND Awards
Title: CROSS TALK
Award: Honourable Mention
Year: 2019
Location: Ndutu Conservation Area, Tanzania
At the waters of Lake Ndutu, a few giraffes had congregated in the shallows, drinking and socialising. I observed these two giraffes seemed almost to be in the midst of a discreet conversation.
International Photography Awards
Title: SPIN DRY
Award: Honourable Mention
Year: 2019
Location: Ndutu Conservation Area, Tanzania
The morning started with torrential rain and poor visibility. When I found this trio of cheetahs, a mother and two sub-adult cubs, they were sitting out the rain, scanning the landscape. I waited, knowing that the cheetahs would try to shake off the excess waiter soaking their coats. This was the moment, when one cub sprayed the other as it shook itself dry.
One Eyeland Top 10 Black & White Photo Contest
Title: SIBLINGS
Award: Bronze
Year: 2019
Location: Ndutu Conservation Area, Tanzania
The morning started with torrential rain and poor visibility. When I found this trio of cheetahs, a mother and two sub-adult cubs, they were sitting out the rain, scanning the landscape. Then as the rain slowed down they began to move, the mother ahead and the cubs trailing. I made this image as bot cubs trotted together, their eyes fixed on their mother.
2018
One Eyeland Photography Awards: Wildlife
Competition: SPIN DRY
Award: Bronze
Year: 2018
Location: Ndutu Conservation Area, Tanzania
The morning started with torrential rain and poor visibility. When I found this trio of cheetahs, a mother and two sub-adult cubs, they were sitting out the rain, scanning the landscape. I waited, knowing that the cheetahs would try to shake off the excess waiter soaking their coats. This was the moment, when one cub sprayed the other as it shook itself dry.
ND Awards
Title: TRAFFIC JAM
Award: Honourable Mention
Year: 2018
Location: Conservation Area, Tanzania
Driving around the Lake Masek area, I found a pride of lions resting in the shade. Suddenly a matriarch elephant, probably unsettled by the presence of the predators around her herd, charged the pride and chased them off. The lions then decided to climb a low acacia tree, each one behind the other.
RECOGNITION & PUBLICATIONS
ONE EYELAND INDIA’S TOP 10 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHERS 2020
Competition: ONE EYELAND INDIA’S TOP 10 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHERS 2020
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC YOUR SHOT (Best Of 2018)
Towering Inferno
ONE EYELAND INDIA’S TOP 10 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHERS 2018
Competition: ONE EYELAND INDIA’S TOP 10 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHERS 2018
DIGITAL CAMERA MAGAZINE (FEBRUARY 2018, ISSUE #199)
Competition: Epson International Pano Awards
Image Analysis-Why Shots Work
SANCTUARY ASIA MAGAZINE (FEBRUARY 2016)
Cover Shot
Year: 2016
