Wild and beautiful: Celebrating wildlife week in the city

A photography exhibition in the city, celebrates the ongoing Wildlife Week. (Text by: Aditya Dogra/ aditya.dogra@hindustantimes.com) From the beauty of the vast open grasslands of Masai Mara in Africa to the small amphibians that inhabit the forest streams and rivulets in India and other creatures like rhinos, lions and hyenas, a photography exhibition in Delhi is showcasing all this and more.

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A photography exhibition in the city, celebrates the ongoing Wildlife Week. (Text by: Aditya Dogra/ aditya.dogra@hindustantimes.com) From the beauty of the vast open grasslands of Masai Mara in Africa to the small amphibians that inhabit the forest streams and rivulets in India and other creatures like rhinos, lions and hyenas, a photography exhibition in Delhi is showcasing all this and more.

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The exhibition, All Things Wild and Beautiful, is showcasing works by two third-generation wildlife film makers, Ajay and Vijay Bedi, who through their work, present a contrast between the beauty of the natural world and its destruction.

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"Our exhibition is not merely about capturing the beauty of nature, we wanted to send out a strong conservation message through it. We have pictures of a snake that's been run over by speeding traffic on a highway in the Kaziranga National Park. It's creatively shot, yet it sends out a message. Likewise, there is another picture of a herd of elephants crossing a busy highway," says Vijay Bedi. "Another effort on our part is to move beyond the images of lions and tigers and highlight the smaller creatures that lead an equally perilous existence," he adds.

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The exhibition, celebrating the Wildlife Week, will also include images of amphibians of India, which have rarely been showcased before. The duo has spent the last three years in one of the richest biodiversity hotspots of the world, the Western Ghats, documenting frogs no bigger than a thumbnail that inhabit the forest floor but seldom get attention.

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Next on the agenda is a film capturing the lives of these frogs and the urgent need for their protection.