I am Manish Vaidya, a nature photographer based in Mumbai, India. For me, the camera is less a device than a way of listening—to light, to the slow language of landscapes, to the unspoken stories of the natural world. I hope my work brings people closer to that world, not through spectacle, but through a deepened sense of presence.
Over time, my photographs have begun to inhabit a meeting place: between memory and longing, love and loss, ambition and the inevitability of mortality. Nature is both my canvas and my compass—its forms and rhythms shaping the way I see and the way I remember.
I’m drawn to images that are less about description than evocation. In them, I share my own way of looking, but leave space for the viewer to enter and wander, to find their own meaning. Because a photograph, like a path, is never travelled the same way twice.
For prints and enquiries write to me:
manishpvaidya at gmail dot com
Awards, Publications, Exhibitions:
Recognition:
2024: Selected to join the 2024 KALĀ x ASAP “Word and Image: Contemporary Art Practices and the Written Word” Workshop with artists Anshika Varma and Fazal Rizvi — one of only four participants chosen from the APAC region. .
2021: Shortlist, Nature inFocus, Conservation & Environmental Issues
2018: Winner, National Biodiversity Photography Awards
2018: Special Mention, Animal Portraits, Nature inFocusPhotography Awards
2016: Shortlist, Sanctuary Asia Photography Awards
2015: Runners' up Nature in Focus Photography Awards
2014: Winner: Miniature World, Canon Wildcliks
PUBLICATIONS:
Nature inFocus: Following the Desert Fox
Nature inFocus: Empty nest syndrome
Better Photography: Top 100 Wildlife images, Curated by Dhritiman Mukherjee and Jayant Sharma, published as a coffee table book
Sanctuary Asia: Dreaming beneath the desert sky
Sanctuary Asia: Denizens of the Thar desert
EXHIBITIONS:
2018: The Wild Nation, Deserts and Grasslands, Curated by Arati Kumar-Rao (selected work from Thar, Corbett and Rann of Kutch)
2018: Wild Karnataka Exhibition, Curated by Nature inFocus team
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