African Wildlife Encounters

An animal’s posture or gaze can give an encounter its character. These photographs connect that individual presence with the space around it, from close views to animals seen at a distance. The project follows visible behaviour and the ways animals inhabit and respond to their surroundings across Africa.

20 photographs

A whale lies at a low angle close to the sea surface, with flippers extending around its body and spray behind, within a broad field of water beneath shoreline buildings and hazy hills.

A close whale head breaks the water surface, with pale raised patches, dark wet skin and blue-green water and foam surrounding it.

A close lion portrait fills a vertical frame, with both ears, a small forehead tuft, amber eyes, muzzle and whiskers visible against softly rendered vegetation.

A lion without a full mane steps toward the camera over reddish rocky grassland, with one forepaw forward, its mouth partly open and softly rendered ground and vegetation behind.

A mud-coated elephant fills a vertical frame with its trunk curled inward and a sheet of splashing water before its chest and forelegs, while a tusk runs out of the left edge.

A blue-headed lizard lies diagonally across deeply cracked bark, with its full body, long tail, splayed feet and space beyond the head against a soft green background.

A horned antelope faces the camera, with complete curved horns, warm side light across its face and chest, blurred grass below and darker blurred shapes behind.

A buffalo tilts its head toward the camera, with an asymmetric horn outline, one long upward-curving horn and a broad dark shoulder against softly rendered woodland.

A rhinoceros lowers its head diagonally in a vertical frame, showing both horns, one eye, textured skin, ears and part of a foreleg among sunlit vegetation.

A lion lies in dry grass with its mouth pulling visible flesh from a carcass, eyes directed toward the camera and insects on the surrounding surfaces.

A bird with a large curved yellow-orange bill and red throat perches on a thorny branch in warm side light, with broad grey-pink background in a horizontal frame.

A seated cheetah faces the camera among dry stems, with a second spotted body cut by the left edge and the main animal's tail extending toward the right.

A yellow bird with a dark face hangs beneath a woven green nest attached to a thorny leafy stem, with its visible eye beside partly obscuring leaves.

Two rhinoceroses face the viewer low in a shrub-framed landscape, with warm light on their backs and a broad pale ridge and sky band above.

A long-horned antelope stands in pale grass with its body broadside and face toward the camera, against softly rendered vegetation.

A giraffe looks toward the camera, with a warm-lit face, diagonal neck and a softer cool hillside behind.

A pink flamingo stands in grey water with its curved neck raised, a short trail of droplets falling from its beak and a small splash beside its broken reflection.

A long-horned antelope walks across dry grass and stony ground, with black-and-white facial markings, its full body visible and one front leg raised.

A hippopotamus raises its head from brown water with jaws fully open, tusks visible and warm light catching the wet skin.

A leopard sits on a broad trunk among upright trees and leaves, its head turned left and its spotted tail descending across the wood toward a bright foreground edge.