Gautham Manohar brings a stark revelation of Nature’s plight with his photographs

Gautham Manohar hopes his photographs serve as reminders of the Earth’s delicate beauty

“In almost all my photographs I do not specify the exact location for two reasons. First, I do not want it to become part of a bucket list where people feel they have to go, as that is contrary to what I am trying to achieve,” says Gautham Manohar.

“Next, when I photograph a hill, lake or forest, it represents all of Nature, not a just specific spot. It stands for all the beauty that exists in places like this.”

Dreams, Places and the Spaces in Between, an upcoming exhibition of photographs by Gautham, aims to showcase India’s natural beauty as well as its fragile existence, courtesy mankind’s avarice and apathy.

The photographer, who is now based out of New Delhi, finished his education and began his professional life in Bengaluru. Like many others before him, Gautham too, took the corporate route only to leave it behind when it failed to check his emotional and creative boxes.

“I had started getting extremely disillusioned with what I was doing, vis-a-vis what I wanted to do. As a child, I was quite keen on photography and even though it was a hobby, it was always at the back of my mind.”

In 2010, Gautham moved to New Delhi and took up wedding photography, but, “Two-and-a-half years ago, I shuttered the commercial photography business. Nature and conservation is something my wife, Ashmitha Jasper, and I feel strongly about.”