Most Travelled Photographer

Name: Benoy K Behl
Place: New Delhi, India.
Record title: Most travelled photographer

Art historian and photographer Benoy K Behl has covered 4, 79,570 km to document Buddhist and Hindu art heritage of Indian and Asian monuments since April 2001 to Sept 21, 2013. In his discovery of art heritage he has travelled around the world eight times, the latest being his world tour to deliver lectures and hold exhibitions from May 14 to June 3, 2012.

Benoy is the only person to document Buddhist heritage of 19 regions in 17 countries. He has delivered 335 lectures in 186 major universities, museums and cultural institutions in 21 countries around the world. He has made 124 documentary films on Indian art and cultural history. His exhibitions have been held in 249 major cultural institutions in 30 countries. He has taken over 40,000 photographs of monuments and art heritage in India and across the world.