Balan Madhavan is an Indian
nature conservation photographer. He is a Senior Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers.
Life and work
Madhavan runs the N Madhavan Pillai Foundation for Conservation Communication, which awards the annual Madhavan Pillai Conservation award to forest guides and workers.
In 2017 he traveled to Antarctica on a photo expedition. An exhibition of the photographs from the expedition he led was held in Thiruvananthapuram.
Madhavan was invited to the membership of the
International League of Conservation Photographers
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Music Albums
* ''International'' (Kevin Michael album), 2011
* ''International'' (New Order album), 2002
* ''International'' (The T ...
in 2009.
Publications
*''Sanctuary for the soul of Kerala Tourism''
*''Periyar in Her Elements''
*''Water Taken for Granted''
Awards
He was the recipient of the Keizo Yamaji UNEP Photography Prize in 1992. The competition was organized by the
United Nations Environment Programme
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and
Canon Inc. and encapsulated the theme "Focus on your world" and prizes were announced at the
World Environment Day
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ceremonies in Rio de Janeiro on 5 June 1992.
References
External links
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Living people
20th-century Indian photographers
21st-century Indian photographers
Indian wildlife photographers
Photographers from Kerala
Year of birth missing (living people)
People from Thiruvananthapuram