About

My connection with the forest began early. My father, the photographer Nanak Dhingra, took me into India’s national parks from the age of seven, and by my early teens I was making photographs of my own. One of the first I still care about was made in Ranthambhore in 1997: the tigress Machli, then a cub, walking beside her mother. I have been going back ever since.

Tigers remain the centre of my work, but the pictures that stay with me are the ones that place an animal in its world — a tigress in the dry forest at dawn, painted storks on a still lake, a chital lit from behind against the dark. I photograph mostly in black and white. Stripped of colour, what is left is light, form and the moment.

Away from wildlife I carry a small camera through the cities I travel to for work — Delhi, Udaipur, Dubai and further afield — and those street and architecture frames form the other half of this site.

Alongside photography I have spent two decades in international business in the industrial and process sectors, working across the Middle East, Africa, Europe, South America and Southeast Asia. Photography is what I do with the rest of my time, and it continues a legacy that now spans two generations.

Selected for the LFI Gallery · Nominee, Refocus Black & White Awards 2026 · Collaborator with Leica Store India on the SL3-P