Witnessing something wild is both a gift and a responsibility.
LIONS
The first lion I photographed, I didn’t move for a long time afterward.
Not from fear — from the particular feeling of being near something that has never needed permission to exist. I have sat with prides at Namiri Plains in the Serengeti, known individual animals by rank and history and loss. King Marley and King Bob Jr. are gone now. King Sirikoi still holds territory.
Lions have disappeared from more than ninety percent of their historic range. What I bring back from these encounters is not a record. It is an argument.
LEOPARDS
Leopards teach patience. You do not find a leopard. A leopard allows itself to be seen — briefly, on its own terms, in its own light.
I spent several days with Loshami in Samburu. A male melanistic leopard — rare enough that for nearly a hundred years, none had been confirmed in Kenya. The first verified sighting was in 2018.
He moves through Loisaba still. Whether you see him depends entirely on him.
The leopard prints in this collection were made at close range, in stillness, over time.
CHEETAHS
A cheetah at full speed is one thing. A cheetah at rest, watching — that is something else entirely. That is the image I am always looking for.
Cheetahs are the most threatened of Africa’s large cats. Outside protected areas, they are losing ground to livestock pressure and habitat loss. Inside them, they are among the most difficult animals to find alone and photograph honestly.
These prints were made in the Serengeti and the Samburu, in the slow hours when everything else had stopped moving.
GREVY’S ZEBRA
Most people picture the plains zebra. The Grevy’s is something else — larger, more upright, with stripes so fine and precise they look almost architectural. They move through northern Kenya in small, scattered populations.
I photograph them in Samburu and along the Lewa Borana Conservancy. They are listed as Endangered. There are fewer than three thousand left — a number that is easy to say and hard to sit with once you’ve stood beside one.
GIRAFFES
Giraffes are in silent decline. They have lost more than forty percent of their population in thirty years — a collapse so gradual that most of the world hasn’t noticed it happening.
I photograph two species here — Rothschild’s Giraffes at Giraffe Manor and Soysambu, and Reticulated Giraffes at Solio. Different in build and marking, both in quiet decline. The Rothschild’s is among the most endangered giraffe subspecies on earth. The Reticulated not far behind.
ELEPHANTS
I have spent more time with elephants than with any other animal. At Amboseli, beneath Kilimanjaro, with families I have come to know individually — Tim, Darlene, the Amboseli matriarchs who have walked these plains for decades.
At Reteti, there is Long’uro — an orphaned elephant who navigates the world with half a trunk and complete composure. Reteti is the first elephant sanctuary in Africa to be community-owned and operated. That matters.
Each sale from the elephant collection supports the Reteti Elephant Sanctuary or the Amboseli Trust for Elephants, as noted on each print.
RHINOS
Southern White Rhinos at Solio. Black Rhinos across the Laikipia. And at Ol Pejeta, Baraka — a blind black rhino who has lived at the conservancy since 2000, and who walks toward you with a steadiness that stops most people in their tracks.
These are animals that exist now because people decided to intervene. The rhino prints in this collection are made slowly, at the conservancies doing that work.
Each sale supports Care for Wild — the world’s largest rhino sanctuary.
PEOPLE
The Samburu have lived alongside these animals for generations. They are not background to a landscape — they are the reason large parts of it still exist.
I photograph indigenous communities with the same attention I give the animals: slowly, without agenda, with permission. These images are portraits of a relationship between people and land that conservation depends on and the world is only beginning to understand.
This work is as much about the people as it is about the wildlife. Always has been.
