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“Nature is the greatest example of the manifest miracle” - Debal Sen

Managing Trustee

Dr Debal Sen

Dr. Debal Sen is one of the most prolific photographers of the natural world currently working out of India. Sen who is a doctor by profession (an interventional cardiologist and insentivist) lives in the city of Kolkata. His career in photography started in the year 1964 when his father lent him a Voigtlander 120mm camera. He was then 10 years old and has been a photographer since then, a career longer than his career in medicine. Sen’s abiding passion has always been the natural world and its denizens, and to him, the pursuit of this reality was in actuality a search for the miraculous. 
 
He feels fortunate to be in India as it offered him an incredible variety of topographies as well as flora and fauna. 
 

The Himalayas, the Sunderbans mangroves, the forests of central India with their apex predator the royal bengal tiger, the idyllic islands of the Andaman sea and the deserts of Rajasthan offered him an infinite variety of photographic opportunities and he has spent the last 50 years photographing them. 

As the years have gone by, he found the many Edens he had once cherished gradually melting away. Deforestation, man animal conflicts and more importantly a people’s disconnection from the natural world have all contributed to the devastation of this national heritage. Sen feels that photographers in their humble efforts at depicting these vanishing Edens are also the greatest conservationists. 

Sen’s work has been widely acclaimed both in India and internationally. He has had numerous exhibitions and presentations within India and his photographs appear regularly in the nature and wildlife magazines of India. He has authored art books and has made videos featuring his photographs and writings.

Sen’s philosophical stance towards his creative work is reflected in all his photographs and writings. For him, the natural world is always magical and miraculous, something that man chooses to forget in his anthropocentricity. In his words, “Images are the keys which open the gates to the Other One.” 

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