All I know is to click photographs ...
Praveen Ravi - is a nature and wildlife photographer. Traveling for more than 15 years in the world of photography, he spent the past 7 years dedicated to nature and wildlife photography. He is a true child of the Indian Western Ghats - a mountain range that stretches 1600 KM along the western coast of the Indian Peninsula. The western ghats region is a "Biodiversity - Hotspot", which contains 30% of all the species of Flora and Fauna found in India and a home to at least 325 globally "Threatened Species''.​
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A tiny town and hill station tucked in the mountains of western ghats with its lush green monsoon forests and its diverse flora and fauna, Munnar, his birthplace was also his ‘love at first sight’. Life has taken him through various mysterious landscapes. He moved to the United States of America as a Software Professional in 2005 and thus began his journey of photography. It was at this phase in life where he could afford the time, the travel and the gear to replace the imaginary shutters of his childhood days with the mechanical shutters of his first ever camera.
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His penchant for finer details and peeking into the world of unknown, finding and capturing the beauty in them drove him to start working on his first ever wildlife documentary - "Silenced Voices" based on real life incidents.
Artist Statement
Photography in my world is being at the right place at the right time - everything else doesn't matter. There are too many factors that could contribute to a stunning photograph and a photographer in my opinion is just a fraction of those factors. I believe that I have been at the right place, at the right time in my life to meet or get to know or to have been in a position to learn about some work of some outstanding photographers of the world.
Photographers have the power to freeze moments, sometimes they are as beautiful as beautiful can be and at other times they showcase ugly truths. In a world where both these kinds of photography are acknowledged and appreciated will change follow.
Finally in the lines of Kevin Carter -
"All I know is to take photographs ..."
Everything else doesn't matter.
