Nationality Indian Employer Self-employment | Occupation Photojournalist | |
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Known for Co-founder of India Nature Watch, NatureIn Focus, Peepli Project Profiles | ||
Kalyan Varma is a Bangalore based wildlife photographer, filmmaker and conservationist. He is one of the founders of Peepli project; co-director of NatureIn Focus nature and wildlife festival; founding member of India Nature Watch. He currently freelances with the BBC Natural History and National Geographic Channel (India), and also works with grassroots NGO's like Nature Conservation Foundation to highlight environmental issues in India.
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Community Initiatives
Kalyan is involved in fostering community among photographers and wildlife conservationists. In 2004 he, along with a team of photographers, founded India Nature watch, an online community which now has become the largest platform for wildlife photographers in Asia. In 2015, he co-founded the slow-journalism initiative the Peepli project, which delves deep into the unreported, under-reported, themes that public discourse currently abdicates. Kalyan undertook a year long project to document the ground realities of human-elephant conflict in Karnataka. He is one of the co-founders of Nature InFocus, an annual festival focussed on nature photography and conservation.
Wildlife documentaries
Kalyan has worked with various wildlife documentaries for the BBC and National Geographic Channel.
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