Nitin Madhav was fortunate to travel as a young child and was struck by the disparities in people's circumstances and opportunities. During college, his love of photography blossomed while backpacking in Bhutan with camera borrowed from his mother. After graduate school, he worked in the Afghan refugee camps outside Peshawar, Pakistan, armed with a Nikon camera and several dozen canisters of Kodachrome film in a ziploc bag. In the camps, he discovered that it was possible to engage meaningfully with people — despite language barriers — and preserve the moment through photography. Over the past three decades, he has worked in countries struggling to recover from conflict and used photography to document human conditions.
His travels have taken him around the world, and he now has a collection of faces and places in Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. As a passionate conservationist, he recently turned to wildlife photography to showcase the magnificence of the Earth's creatures. He lives in Washington, DC, and travels as much as possible. His photography has been published in Men's Health, Lonely Planet, Conde Nast Traveller UK, and Maptia. His fine art wildlife photography is on www.nitin.photography.
