Amish Chhagan, in brief

Amish Chhagan is a Zambia-raised fine art wildlife photographer and safari host. His work has been published by National Geographic, WWF and GEO and recognised by the Sony World Photography Awards, Africa Geographic and Nature TTL. He is a Nikon MEA Creator and a Samsung Frame art partner, and hosts private, photographer-led African safaris.

Amish Chhagan is a fine art wildlife photographer, conservation storyteller and safari host. Raised in Zambia, where a childhood outdoors set the course for everything since, he picked up photography seriously in London and committed to wildlife after a first trip to Kenya's Masai Mara. His work spans Africa, Asia and Latin America.

His photographs have been published by National Geographic and WWF's World Wildlife magazine, featured in GEO, and recognised by the Sony World Photography Awards, Africa Geographic Photographer of the Year and Nature TTL Photographer of the Year. He is a Nikon Middle East and Africa Creator and a Samsung Frame art partner.

Through Chags Photography he sells signed limited-edition prints, works with interior designers and galleries, and hosts private, photographer-led safaris in Kenya, Zambia, Botswana and the Congo Basin.

Amish Chhagan is a fine art wildlife photographer, conservation storyteller and safari host whose work argues, quietly, for what we stand to lose. Raised in Zambia, he grew up with the bush at the end of the road and a father's film camera he could rarely afford to load. Years later, with a day job in London and a basic Nikon DSLR, the habit returned; a first trip to the Masai Mara turned it into a vocation.

Chhagan's photographs sit closer to art than record. He works mostly in black and white, favours patience over pursuit, and is drawn as much to texture and form, the hide of an elephant, the mane of a giraffe, as to the classic portrait. The result is a body of work collected for private homes and architectural settings, and published by National Geographic and WWF's World Wildlife magazine, with features in GEO, Nkwazi and PAW Trails. He has been shortlisted in the Sony World Photography Awards (2021 and 2022), Highly Commended by Africa Geographic Photographer of the Year 2024 and Nature TTL Photographer of the Year 2023, and won the conservation category of the Wilderness Safaris Photographic Competition 2021 and the Wildlife category of the SUGI x NAVA photography contest in 2023. In 2026 he wrote and photographed a feature on orangutans for WWF's World Wildlife magazine.

He is a Nikon Middle East and Africa Creator, a Samsung Frame art partner and an ambassador for f-stop camera bags and Mulberry Mongoose. Under Chags Photography, the company he founded, he sells signed limited-edition prints, supplies large-format works to interior designers and galleries, and hosts private, photographer-led safaris in Kenya, Zambia, Botswana and the Congo Basin, where he leads a small group to the western lowland gorillas of Odzala-Kokoua in October 2027.