Aditya 'Dicky' Singh

“Lodge owner, photographer, wildlife enthusiast, conservationist, traveler or just plain confused…that’s for you to decide.” Dicky described himself this way on his website and was one of India’s finest Wildlife photographers. With a background in engineering, he quickly decided that his interests and calling lay in work in the field of environment and natural habitat & wildlife protection. His beginnings as a photographer started in 1999, when he was asked to help with a BBC documentary about the Ranthambore nature park, and he never looked back since then.

His wildlife pictures and passion to capture great nature pictures are timeless as his efforts to being a nature conservationist at heart. Throughout his life his work has been published in numerous magazines, he wrote a book and has won international awards like the Carl Zeiss Award for Conservation and the Sanctuary Wildlife Photographer of the Year.

One of the bigger achievements of his non photographic career was buying a 35 acre piece of land, near Ranthambore national park, allowing it to return to its natural state and being a safe haven for wildlife. Aditya Dicky Sing died on September 6 2023.