Jyothy Karat is a Bangalore-based Filmmaker, Photographer, and a National Geographic Explorer. 

She began her career as a Photo Editor with AOL (America Online). She was 22 when she got selected by the Angkor Photo Festival for a workshop for Emerging Photographers in Asia in 2009. 

Since taking that leap of faith, I have travelled to and reported from 20 countries, won a Fellowship from World Press Photo and Konrad Adenauer to study Multimedia Journalism in the Philippines and worked for some of the biggest media brands in the world.