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Kalyan Varma is a wildlife photographer and filmmaker based out of Bangalore, India. He freelances with many of the world's leading magazines, environmental NGOs, and television channels like National Geographic and BBC.

Career
In 2015, Kalyan, along with other photographers and journalists, founded the Peepli Project, a slow-journalism site which tries to showcase the issues of water, environment and development in India. It delves deep into the unreported, under-reported, themes that public discourse currently abdicates. It aims to bring together the right platform with the right journalist to tell the stories that matter most to a country on the cusp of dramatic, occasionally violent, often wrenching, change. Each project is reported from the ground, and is characterised by a mix of live reportage and deep narrative, the whole enriched with images and video, maps and timelines, and the entire suite of tools and technologies that enhance contemporary storytelling.

His recent project Nature without Borders showcases the relationship between people and wildlife in India in particularly the rise and factors that influenced the capture of elephants in Hassan. His video of the elephant capture went viral and was instrumental in the government banning large scale translocations of elephants in Karnataka

Wildlife films

 * 2015 BBC India: Natures Wonders
 * 2014 BBC Wonders of the Monsoon Series
 * 2012 BBC Life Stories series - BBC, 2012
 * 2011 National Geographic Channel Secrets of Wild India: Tiger Jungles
 * 2011 National Geographic Channel Secrets of Wild India: Desert Lions
 * 2010 BBC One million snake bites

Other work
Along with a team of photographers he founded India Nature Watch, an online not-for-profit photography community which now has become the largest platform for upcoming wildlife photographers in Asia. He is a fellow and speaker at INK Talks in association with TED. He is associated with various NGO's like Nature Conservation Foundation and VGKK.