Shailendra Yashwant is an independent documentary photographer and environmental journalist based in India. He has been documenting, reporting and campaigning on wildlife conservation, social justice and climate change issues in South Asia for over three decades now.

He began his career as a news photographer and worked with several newspapers and magazines in India and South Asia, including the Hindu and the Outlook magazine.

Between 1999 and 2011 he worked as Campaigns Director with Greenpeace in India and Southeast Asia.

He has partnered with many organisations including Save The Children, Oxfam, UNICEF, Sanctuary Nature Foundation, Changing Markets Foundation, DIB, Swedwatch, on projects ranging from environmental investigations into industrial pollution, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction projects to documenting the impacts of climate change on remote communities.  

Since 2012 he has been working on various climate change related projects including facilitating, designing and reviewing communications and advocacy strategies for mitigation, adaptation and disaster risk reduction projects for a variety of civil society organisations in South Asia. He is currently Senior Advisor to Climate Action Network South Asia (CANSA).

He regularly contributes opinion pieces, photo-features and reports to Moneycontrol, Earth Journalism Network, TheThirdPole, SanctuaryAsia, and Scroll.in among others.