Dhritiman Mukherjee is one of the most respected and loved Nature photographers in India today. He is admired for his dedication, perseverance and hard work.
He has got RBS Earth Hero Award 2014 for inspiring people with his images towards conservation and Carl Zeiss Conservation award for contribution in conservation in 2013 with many other national and international photographic awards. As a professional photographer his work has been being published in all kind of print and digital media in numbers and with brands like BBC, National Geographic, New york Times, Lonely Planet, WWF, London Geographic, Telegraph, The Guardian etc to name a few. He is a field guy working from mountain to underwater or desert to rain forest. He climbed mountain for rare species, flew in sky to get a rare angle of bird, dived under ice, climbed volcano, spent days in tree canopy, dived in the caves, he did all possible thing to make a difference. He works around 300days a year in the field. Recently he does a comprehensive coffee-table book named “Magical Biodiversity of India” by BNHS and Oxford. Also he did at least 30 other books where he was sole or major photographer. He is one of the founder members of an Indian Wildlife magazine Saevus. Recently he was the one of the three juries for national award for photography government of India.