The photographs he has clicked has been featured amongst popular Instagram travel pages and his recent capture from Kenya won him a cash prize too.
Once he was asked that how he got time to learn photography after coping with the busy med school schedule. He answered that he read photography books and watched YouTube videos along with some guidance from his father who shared the similar passion and profession with him. Guess it runs in the family.
He told me he doesn’t regret being a doctor as it occasionally holds him back from travelling due to the hectic hospital work.In fact, on multiple occasions, it has been proven to be beneficial. Rather, being a doctor allowed him to provide his fellow traveller with medicines once while hiking through the mountainous terrain of Ladakh as he was having high altitude mountain sickness.
Now with the pandemic stirring chaos, he is working relentlessly as a frontline professional and making travel plans for when this wave settles. Seeing a guitar next to him, I asked him if he plays and he surprised me with strumming a melody from a Tamil movie.
Apart from being a doctor, a travel photographer and a guitarist, Dr Kumar B.G also is an avid reader. He grows a hamster as a pet and is filming a photography mentor course after his hectic shifts in the hospital. He gets back home by 8 PM and works on the mentor course till 11 PM.
With that, I ended my interview on a note where the multi talented and young Dr Kumar B.G told me before I left “One life, make it worth it".