Wildlife portraits

Elephant and his mahout - Kerala

Bannerghatta national park tiger (Shot within the confines of Bannerghatta Safari i.e. not a wild tiger)

Alleged man eating leopard captured on the outskirts of Bombay city


Alleged man eater 2 trapped- Borivili

Mugger croc (Madras croc banks) Shot in a large aquarium, not a wild croc and i was not underwater when i shot it

Indian rock python feeding

Elephant and Adarsh

Gaur - Bandipur

Captive elephant eyes- Kerala

Three tetra fish and two muggers - MCBT

King cobra and Sumantho - Orissa

Ranis feet - Bandipur

stalk - Bannerghatta "safari" park (note the wire shadows on the tigers flanks)

Russells viper - Mysore

scrapping sloth bears - These bears were shot at Bannerghatta and are not wild bears.

Asian elephant (tame)

King Cobra being filmed for a documentary at Agumbe. Handled by Gouri Shankar

Red scorpion


Captive leopard at Bannerghatta National park


Saw scaled viper - Mysore

By the Ganges

Kaningara Initiation

Liebert and dinner

Papua New Guinea occupies the eastern half of the tropical island of New Guinea which it shares with the Indonesian territory of Irian Jaya and includes many smaller islands and atolls in the Pacific Ocean. The central part of the island rises into a forbidding range of mountains called the "highlands", a territory that is so densely forested and forbidding that the island's local peoples have remained isolated from each other for tens of thousands of years. Nancy Sullivan, an intrepid anthropologist from PNG agreed to lead us while we covered several stories. This story was along the Kaningara river.



I headed down the Sepik river with Eric and a crew that included Nancy Sullivan, an anthropologist, to do a short film on "Kaningara skin cutting initiation".



Nancy Sullivan keeps an eye out


Liebert holds a sago grup, an important protein source










The entrance to the spirit lodge. the sculpture of the women signifies her giving birth to those who exit the lodge where knowledge is imparted



Family member greet initiates who have been in the lodge for a long time