The tiger, on
its own terms.
Bagh, the old word for tiger, spoken quietly in these forests for a thousand years. We keep four forests, one photographer, and never more than four guests. Everything else is silence.
Two decades.
Eight hundred tigers.
Varun Thakkar was raised in Nagpur, at the centre of India's tiger country, and has spent two decades learning its forests the slow way, one lineage, one season, one pugmark at a time. Trackers call him a talisman; the tigers simply seem to appear.
He photographs to conserve, not to collect. Travel beside him and the jungle stops being scenery, it becomes something you can read.
NIKON PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
When India's finest
want the forest.
From members of the Indian cricket team to filmmakers and heads of industry, those who could travel with anyone choose to travel with Varun, for the fieldcraft, and for the discretion.
Your safari is as private as theirs. Who you meet in the forest stays in the forest.
One party. One forest.
Nothing shared.
Five nights, or ten across two forests. Your own vehicle at every gate, the finest house in each landscape, and Varun beside you on every drive, reading the forest aloud, placing you where the light and the tiger will meet.
We accept a small number of engagements each season.
Terms are shared privately, upon introduction.
"He told us where she would step into the light, thirty seconds before she did. I have photographed on three continents. I have never seen fieldcraft like it."
Begin with
a letter.
Tell us who you are, when you wish to travel, and which forest calls to you. Varun replies personally, within a day.
