Varun Aditya


Varun Aditya, is an Indian wildlife photographer and environmentalist. His work has garnered recognition, highlighted by his first-place achievement as the National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year in 2016. In addition to his photographic accomplishments, Varun Aditya engages in research about animals and nature through his photography.

Career

Aditya received the opportunity to travel with American popular landscape photographer Michael Melford to Costa Rica and Panama after winning a Nat Geo competition in 2013. In 2016, he won the first prize at the National Geographic Photographer of the Year in the Animal Portraits category for his photograph on a green vine snake which is also called the Asian Vine Snake.
On 19 August 2019 coinciding with the World Photography Day, CEO of Apple, Tim Cook posted an image on Twitter which was captured by Varun Aditya related to the picture on elephants with double rainbow in the background.

Awards and recognition