Kalyan Varma

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.

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.

Kalyan has worked with various wildlife documentaries for the BBC and National Geographic Channel.

• 2015 BBC India: Natures Wonderland
• 2014 BBC Wonders of the Monsoon
• 2012 BBC Life Story (TV series)
• 2011 National Geographic Secrets of Wild India
• 2009 BBC One million snake bites
• 2008 BBC The Mountains of the Monsoon

• "India: Natures Wonderland". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-01-22. 
• "Wonders of the Monsoon". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-01-22. 
• P. Oppili (2012-04-05). "Today's Paper / NATIONAL : 'Secrets of Wild India' bags award at International Wildlife Film Festival". The Hindu. Retrieved 2012-10-26. 
• http://www.iconfilms.co.uk/productions/past-productions/one-million-snake-bites.html

• 2015 Por el Planeta - First place in Animal Behaviour
• 2015 Asferico international nature photography contest
• 2013 NHM photographer of the year - Biological Realms

• Howard, Brian Clark; 2015, National Geographic PUBLISHED Tue Dec 01 07:25:00 EST. "Stunning Images Show the Impact of Man on Nature". National Geographic News. Retrieved 2016-01-24. 
• "The Hunt". www.asferico.com. Retrieved 2016-01-29. 
• "Cocoon of life". www.nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-01-24.