Our Photographer of the Week : Seenappa Marashetty

Purple Moorehen
Bangalore

Seenappa had a twenty years (1986 to 2006) career with the United Nations. He first worked with the Joint WHO/UNICEF Iringa Nutrition Programme, and subsequently spent 15 years with UNICEF. He served in Tanzania, then Zanzibar, (as Head of Office), Zambia, and the Caribbean Area Office in Barbados. He coordinated development and popularization of the integrated management software PROMS (Programme manager system). He even developed a user manual while working as one of the global trainers. 

Among his hobbies is wildlife and bird photography and more specially photography of spiders. Seenappa’s spider photography — not shown here — was recognised when he was invited to talk about the Indian Spiders at the Harvard Museum of Natural History in 2012.

Some of Seenappa's photographs here featured include wild animals such as the Bison, Giraffe, and Elephant from Masai Mara Park in Tanzania, Tiger and birds such as the Pelican from the Nagarahole forest in Karnataka India. His special photography interests include sky-gazing, in particular tracking sunspots and planets. 

In addition to the slideshow below, you can also visit his page in our gallery of XUNICEF Photographers by clicking here.

You can see even more of Seenappa's photography on his Facebook photos page by clicking here.