Alpine golden hour from the Schilthorn, Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, 2015

My photographs have been viewed 101.6 million times on Wikipedia.

34.1 million of those views came in the past year, across 118 language editions. All 12,684 of my photographs on Wikimedia Commons are free to use under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Alpine golden hour from the Schilthorn, Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, 2015. Photo: Ank Kumar, on Flickr
12,684
photographs released on Wikimedia Commons
847
of them illustrating 1,496 articles
154
Wikimedia sites, including 118 Wikipedias
25
books and journals that credit my work
21
countries I photographed them in

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Where my photographs are seen

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Top countries

  1. United States28.0%18.1M
  2. Germany10.1%6.5M
  3. France8.6%5.5M
  4. United Kingdom6.9%4.4M
  5. India4.9%3.1M
  6. Canada3.4%2.2M
  7. Spain3.1%2.0M
  8. Italy3.1%2.0M
  9. Poland2.1%1.4M
  10. Japan1.9%1.2M

205 countries in total. Estimate: each article's views are split by its Wikipedia edition's reader mix by country (Wikimedia Analytics). Wikimedia does not publish country data per article or per file.

In print

Books and journals that reproduce my photographs with credit, each checked against the published text.

On the web

629 pages on 401 websites use my photographs, including:

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