8th wonder

Hampi is among the places you should see before you die. Few cities can boast of such fame or beauty. Over centuries, it has charmed overseas visitors from Nicolo Conti, Colonel Mackenze to Jackie Chan.

Beauty and The Beholder

These are among the most beautiful pieces of stone you will ever see. They belong to the golden era in Deccan history when Bidar was among the most beautiful cities in the world. Persian poet Abdul Rehman Jami who wrote the immortal epic `Laila –Majnoo’ had described Bidar as the `envy of Rome’. Historians have called it the capital of Deccan in the 15th century.

Bonding Lonely Trees & Lesser Mortals

Photography is not just objectifying for visual delight but more than one can imagine or perceive, as evident from these pictures of lonely trees and lesser mortals like trans-genders and cross dressed bonding so well with Nature to be a cynosure of all!

Candle Lights Kindle Hopes

Since the dawn of creation, natural light has been the source of energy for the universe and beyond. Playing hide and seek as day and night, light and darkness have been mutually exclusive.

Cash Crunch

Millions of Indians, especially the honest and poor became paupers overnight after Rs.500 and Rs.1,000 notes were scrapped on November 8. Ordinary people are the worst-hit by the resultant cash crunch as they face severe hardship daily for no fault of them.

Covid

The Coronavirus pandemic caught humanity unawares when it invaded the world 4 years ago in January 2020 and continues to wreak havoc, causing a trail of death and devastation globally.

Fringes of Civilization

Halakki Vokkaligaru – Charmed by tribal jewelry, K. Venkatesh continues his jungle journeys

Model Beyond Gender

Indian fashion models beware ! The Transgender of India are closing up to do a catwalk as good as their counterparts.

Namma Metro

Namma Metro, the new swanky public transport service, which ferries around three lakh commuters daily across the hi-tech metropolis, represents the good, the bad and the ugly of a cosmopolitan city that became a victim of its success, prosperity and phenomenal growth over the past three decades.

Ordinary Folks at Siesta in Style!

Sleep is the best thing to happen for creatures, especially homo-sapiens (human beings). Termed as neuro-biological activity, sleep is essential for our survival and life is unthinkable without it. A sound sleep is a measure of our health at physical, mental and spiritual levels.

Out of Focus

Koovagam, a sleepy hamlet near Villupuram in Tamilnadu, wakes up to world's attention at the end of every Spring Season.

Play of Lights in Darkness

‘Where Light is, there is no Darkness’ is an old saying. In reality, they co-exist! In art or photography, a creative eye can make them play with each other!

Panorama of Gomateshwara

Shravanabelagola, the Jain pilgrimage town, about 50 KM from Hassan, comes alive every 12 years when millions of devotees from the world over assemble atop the pictures que Vindhyagiri hill and chandragiri hill to celebrate and witness the Maha Mastakabhisheka of Lord Gomateshwara.

Waves of Woes

K. Venkatesh, Holds the reputation of being the man-on-the-spot and needless to say he was there along the ravaged coastline of Southern India, covering the human misery, post the Tsunami Wave.

Ornate Jewellery Treasure Trove

The Ornate Jewellery worn by Lambanis of the Deccan Plateau and Rustic women of southern Tamil Nadu over the centuries is unique and grandiose as their design, materials and craft are steeped in the folklore of India.

Old Age Home

The geriatric generation of Bangalore , touted as India 's high-tech city, are not only victims of old age problems, but also of a modern society, which has little time for caring these genteel souls.

Water Woes

Water one of Nature's gifts to mankind, is becoming a scarce commodity, especially in Karnataka. what has been over centuries a source of life for Homo Sapiens and flora and fauna is vanishing from the land that was once proud of its rivers, lakes ponds and deep wells.

Grateful Dead

For the hundreds who die alone and abandoned every year in India's technology capitol, Praveen Kumar, 21 is anangel of mercy. He is the sole companion of the city's orphan dead, carrying them on their final journey and giving them adignity in death denied in life. Praveen cleanses the city of its guilt.

Banyan Clan

At a time when the joint family tradition has become a thing of past and where nucleus families thrive, the 180-member strong Narasinganavar clan is an exception in modern India.

Siddis

In the forests abutting the Western Ghats live a people whose identity is as distinctive as it is enigmatic. Their past is an unforgettable, hazy memory and their present is here and now amid the patchwork of identities that make up Karnataka and India.

Metamorphosis

For millennia, cities and towns have shaped and reshaped themselves in an endless cycle of life and renewal. What remain are a few grand monuments, extravagant creations of the mighty and the powerful. The humble dwellings of the tiller of the land and the workshops of the artisan have been forever ephemeral. The future is always built on the ruins of the past.

Bengaluru Althide

Illustrations

Koovagam

K. Venkatesh has also published a pictorial book on Transgender's rituals and festivals, titled 'Koovagam', which is first of its kind in India.

Calendar

K. Venkatesh, Holds the reputation of being out of focus by touching subjects with human angle, which are offbeat. Another addition on his such work is Transgender Calendar, first time in India.

Bonus - Lights in Darkness Exhibition