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About Prasenjeet Yadav
Prasenjeet Yadav (@prasen.yadav) is a Photographer creator on Instagram, also filed under Travel. The account has 166,424 followers and 255 published posts. Recent posts average 6,104 likes and 234 comments, an engagement rate of 3.41%.
An audience of 166.4K puts Prasenjeet Yadav in the mid-tier, between 100,000 and 1 million followers. Set against 1,350 accounts followed, the audience works out to about 123 followers per account Prasenjeet Yadav follows. Prasenjeet Yadav carries Instagram's verified badge and uses an Instagram professional account. Flinque files Prasenjeet Yadav under Photographer, with Travel as a secondary category.
The Instagram bio for Prasenjeet Yadav runs to 15 words. The bio mentions @natgeo and @insidenatgeo. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Prasenjeet Yadav dates from September 2025.
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255 Posts
Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Prasenjeet Yadav, 5 are carousels, 3 are videos and 2 are single images. No single format accounts for most of them. 255 published posts give Prasenjeet Yadav a moderate archive on Instagram. Against the audience, that is roughly 653 followers for each post published. Prasenjeet Yadav also keeps 12 story highlights on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 155 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include national, geographic, india, cover and black. The captions tag #northeastindia, #royalenfieldsocialmission, #conservation, #filmmaking and #filmfestival.
After the Black Tiger story came out last September, everything moved very fast for a few months. The cover, the messages, the interviews, the kindness from people, the pride from India, and the attention around the story.
And then I went silent.
Partly because I was tired. Partly because I am not very good at constantly posting. But mostly because some stories take time to leave the body. I had spent a couple of years working on this story and, at times, months inside the forest, waiting for one animal, one frame, one moment. When the story finally reached the world, I needed some distance from it too.
Over the next few weeks/months, I want to slowly share what stayed with me after the cover. Not just the photograph, but the science, the failures, the field days, the people, the forest department teams, the conservation efforts, the strange patience of camera traps, and what these black tigers tell us about isolation and connection.
So I am starting again, slowly. Not with the cover. With the animals and forest that made it possible.
Photograph by Prasenjeet Yadav / National Geographic at Similipal tiger reserve.
We are thrilled to have Prasenjeet Yadav at the Green Hub Northeast India Festival 2026. A National Geographic Photographer of the Photographer’s Awardee, Prasenjeet is a huge inspiration having broken barriers in the field of natural history and science storytelling.
Do join us on the 15th of May, 2026 to attend his talk.
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#northeastindia #royalenfieldsocialmission #conservation #filmmaking #filmfestival
Every year, National Geographic photographers vote internally for one photographer and one body of work as the best of that year. I’m truly honoured to receive that award for 2025.
This might be the biggest award of my life as a photographer, because it comes from my peers, a handful of global photographers working at the very top of this field. People whose work I’ve learned from for years, photographers whose images shaped my idea of the world and this field.
I’m still trying to process it. Still a little overwhelmed. But deeply happy and grateful.
I keep thinking that my younger self, growing up on a farm near Nagpur city in India, would have never believed that my path would lead me here.
When they asked me to stand on that chair and say a few words, I was jet-lagged, my mind was blank, standing on that chair, and I honestly didn’t have a speech. All I could think about was everyone who got me here: my mentors, editors, professors, scientific collaborators, field teams, forest department colleagues, local communities, supporters, dear friends, National Geographic Society, and my family. I can’t name you all here, but you know who you are.
Thank you for listening to me, for dealing with my strange behaviour, and for still believing in what I do. This is because of you.
I’ll carry this on the hard days. And for a field that can feel lonely, this made me feel held.
For the work I’ve been building across India, this kind of recognition means everything. Back to the field. 🙏
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is a molecular ecologist turned National Geographic Photographer & Explorer.
Prasenjeet is one of the very few photographers who integrate science deeply into his photo stories.
Recently, Prasenjeet had one goal: document a pseudo-melanistic tiger for his story on India’s Similipal Tiger Reserve. Using camera traps, he photographed the rare and elusive black tigers, a story that was featured by National Geographic.
Come join us in the next #storytellingforchange session with Prasenjeet Yadav, where he’ll share his journey from science to storytelling, insights on merging research with visual narratives, and practical ways to use storytelling as a tool for conservation and impact.
The event will be hosted by.
Come join this live session!
🗓️ Wednesday, November 5 10:00 AM ET
Visit the link in our bio to register.
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Discover the fascinating science behind these rare tigers, the challenges of photographing them, and how one striking image taken by an Indian photographer made it to the cover of National Geographic International.
All this and more in our latest podcast with Prasenjit Yadav.
🎧 Link in bio.
Not literally but well, figuratively!
He's the photographer who brought the elusive black tigers to the world’s attention, featured on a National Geographic cover no less.
Our new podcast with National Geographic Photographer and Explorer Prasenjit Yadav launches tomorrow.
Stay tuned!
This Wildlife Week, we’re going behind the lens with National Geographic Explorer, whose breathtaking shot of the elusive black tiger graces the cover of National Geographic magazine’s October 2025 issue.
Join him as he reveals what it truly takes to capture nature’s best-kept secrets, from navigating harsh terrains and unpredictable encounters to the sheer patience behind this iconic shot.
It feels surreal even to write that. I dreamt of this moment back when I first thought of becoming a professional photographer, and to see it on the cover today feels like a circle closing.
A cover is rare, and to both photograph and write the story makes it even rarer. In fact, it is the first time an Indian story has been written, photographed and became a cover by an Indian in National Geographic’s long history. Very few contributors anywhere in the world get this chance. To know that a story from India will now travel to millions of readers across 170 countries, carrying the voices of these forests and the people who protect them, is overwhelming.
One person cannot do projects like these. I am full of gratitude to the entire team of and for standing by me for over a decade, to for years of collaboration, to the Odisha and Maharashtra Forest Departments for their tireless work and trust, to the scientists from and WII and collaborators who shaped the science, to my editors who guided the story and helped bring out the best parts, to the friends who supported me in the field and beyond, and to my family who believed in me long before I believed in myself.
This story is also part of a much larger journey, one that I hope will continue through the years ahead, telling stories from India’s wild places with the belief that they can connect people across the world.
Today, more than anything, I feel thankful and happy that this story, from deep inside India’s forests, will now find its place in the world. I would love for you to read it ( Link in my bio) and share your thoughts. Also, I think the cover looks pretty cool, right?
. In this image, a Snow Leopard walks towards a camera trap with two villages in the background. The electricity was out those few days so all you see are a few solar lamps from the village instead of a well lit houses as they are usually. This image was to show that Snow Leopards and humans share spaces. Although low in densities, humans are all around in the Snow Leopard distribution. At times, Snow Leopards hunts livestock, which results in the tension between Humans and Snow Leopards.
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If you want to know more about what happens in such situations and how local communities cope up with the loss, read the beautifully written story on the work of by, head to the link in my Bio.
-India #India#Himalayas #wildlife #photography#storytelling
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Prasenjeet Yadav's engagement
Prasenjeet Yadav's engagement rate on Instagram is 3.41%, between 3% and 6%, or 3 to 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 29 followers. An average post collects 6,104 likes and 234 comments, close to 26 likes for each comment.
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Who is Prasenjeet Yadav?
Prasenjeet Yadav (@prasen.yadav) is a Photographer creator on Instagram, also filed under Travel. Prasenjeet Yadav carries Instagram's verified badge and uses an Instagram professional account. The Instagram bio for Prasenjeet Yadav runs to 15 words.
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Prasenjeet Yadav has 166,424 followers on Instagram (166.4K). Set against 1,350 accounts followed, the audience works out to about 123 followers per account Prasenjeet Yadav follows. 255 published posts give Prasenjeet Yadav a moderate archive on Instagram.
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Prasenjeet Yadav's engagement rate on Instagram is 3.41%, between 3% and 6%, or 3 to 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 29 followers. An average post collects 6,104 likes and 234 comments, close to 26 likes for each comment.
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Flinque files Prasenjeet Yadav under Photographer, with Travel as a secondary category. Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Prasenjeet Yadav, 5 are carousels, 3 are videos and 2 are single images. The 10 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for Prasenjeet Yadav repeatedly use the words national, geographic, india, cover and black. Prasenjeet Yadav's captions carry hashtags such as #northeastindia, #royalenfieldsocialmission and #conservation. Prasenjeet Yadav writes those captions mainly in English. Prasenjeet Yadav keeps 12 story highlights, which open with a free Flinque account.
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