Over the last two decades, former union minister Kamal Morarka has captured the beauty of the wild with his camera. Some of his works have been exhibited at the Jehangir Art Gallery in Mumbai in 2011 and since then, have been shown at many exhibitions across the country. And now, Sanctuary magazine has brought out Roar, a beautiful compilation of some of Morarka’s most breathtaking images.
Whether it is a montage of painted storks during the mating season at Keoladeo National Park in Bharatpur, India, or a majestic African elephant taking a leisurely stroll at Masai Maara in Kenya, Africa, Morarka’s lens captures the beauty and majesty of the wild and uses photography, both as a form or art as well as a conservation tool. With a foreword by Bittu Sahgal, Editor of Sanctuary Asia, and a preface by poet and journalist Pritish Nandy, Roar is Morarka’s endeavour to preserve this invaluable heritage of ours.
As he writes in the author’s note — “I learnt that wild life is important and to preserve that, we need jungles. Rivers can be maintained only by jungles. It is the whole ecosystem that needs to be nurtured... In the mad rush of urbanisation, development and industrialisation we lose sight of our great heritage: our forests, our rivers, our wild life.”
