This project, Tiger Trap, is my first major overseas endeavor since
returning to photography and writing full-time; it is a self-assignment.  
Like most of the projects I have worked on previously, it relies heavily on
contacts I have developed over the years, and subjects or species,
that I have a keen interest in seeing explored from a perspective I think
has been neglected.

















I had the great fortune a few years ago of meeting Dr. M Firoz Ahmed
through good friend and photographer Shyamal Datta.  Dr. Ahmed
and his team are conducting amazing camera trap censusing work in
India's Kaziranga N.P. - so that's where we caught up in February 2010
to begin the Tiger Trap project.  After a short intense schedule and
1,500 photos and my endless questions later, we have a solid start to
telling the story of the tiger work over the past two years.  More will be
posted here as we develop the story - as well as a list of the
international publications carrying the work.

More About Kaziranga National Park
Above Images
Elephant image # Indiad13_kaznp_a 056
Tiger kill # Indiad13_kaznp_a 115
Tiger monitoring  # Indiad14_firoz 079
Tiger  # ARNYK_KNP_Female20 (courtesy
Aaranyak)

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Tiger Trap story or images please
contact Minden Pictures
Tiger Trap
Just over a century ago there were an
estimated 45,000 tigers living wild in
India's forests. By the time hunting was
banned in 1972, their numbers were
down to 2,000. Over the past century,
the world's population of tigers has
been reduced by 95% as a result of
hunting and poaching for their body
parts, which are used in traditional
Asian medicine. As we celebrate The
Year of the Tiger there are only
around 3,200 tigers left on the planet.
Tiger Trap explores the unseen lives of India's most iconic wildlife symbol
- the tigers.  One of the primary foci of the Tiger Trap story is how the
research team is using new technologies, including photography, to
build a body of critical data on
this extremely endangered cat.  
The study area is Kaziranga
National Park, a World
Heritage Site, and offers
enormous potential for wildlife,
hosting two-thirds of the world's
Great One-horned
Rhinoceroses. Kaziranga boasts
the highest density of tigers
among protected areas in the
world and was declared a Tiger
Reserve in 2006.