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A large flock of lesser flamingos lifting off the water of Thane Creek with the hazy Mumbai skyline behind them

Wildlife & Nature Photographer

SumanGhosh

Field work from the tiger forests, wetlands and rainforests of India.

Enter TadobaAbout the photographer

Ten Thousand Wings

Lesser Flamingo — Phoeniconaias minor

The work

Photographs made bywaiting, not bychasing.
I photograph the wildlife of central and western India — mostly tigers, mostly birds, always from a permitted vehicle or a hide, always on the animal's terms. The pictures that matter to me are the ones where nothing was disturbed to get them.
Big catsWetland birdsRainforestConservation reportage

Where most of these frames were actually made.

Bodies of work

Three places,three ways of looking.

Every photograph on this site appears on exactly one page. No frame is shown twice.

Featured reserve

Tadoba-Andhari.625 square kilometresof teak and tiger.
Maharashtra's oldest and largest national park sits in the Chandrapur district of Vidarbha, roughly 140 km south of Nagpur. It holds one of the densest tiger populations on earth — and, unusually, it lets you watch them live ordinary lives.
Core zone625.4 km²
With buffer1,727 km²
Safari zonesTadoba · Moharli · Kolsa
Core season1 Oct – 30 Jun
Buffer seasonYear-round
Nearest airportNagpur (140 km)

By the numbers

Twenty years,counted honestly.
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    Years in the field

    First roll of film in a Kanha gypsy, 2004. Still counting.

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    Tigers in Tadoba

    The reserve's current estimate — one of the densest tiger populations anywhere on earth.

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    Species logged

    Birds, mammals and reptiles recorded across Maharashtra and central India.

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    Safari drives

    Across Tadoba, Pench, Kanha, Bandhavgarh and the creeks of the Konkan coast.

Work together

Prints, licensing,and guided field trips.
Archival prints of any frame on this site, image licensing for editorial and conservation use, and small-group photography trips into Tadoba and the Konkan.