Hunters
These portraits are the start of a new long term project documenting hunting, hunters, and the hunted, and those spaces associated with hunting.
As a child I was fascinated by the tales of Colonel Jim Corbett hunting man-eating Tiger in India. As an art student it was Peter Beard's seminal work 'The End of the Game' that fascinated and inspired.
Many years later in Cape Town I met a man in a coffee shop surrounded by chocolate Labradors, tanned and fit he was between jobs, he was a professional hunter, the seed was sown, I wanted to see the World through his eyes.
For the uninitiated he is at the coal face, above him is a network of outfitters and agents who supply him with clients who pay for his vast experience.
These Professional Hunters lead the modern day safaris, they are complex individuals, quiet and yet gregarious, hunters and yet conservationists. Their clients are as complex as their hosts, these are not the priviledged of old but the leaders of today.
This work will seek to explore the intricate and complex relationship between man and animals and how both struggle to adapt to their changing environments.
These portraits are the start of a new long term project documenting hunting, hunters, and the hunted, and those spaces associated with hunting.
As a child I was fascinated by the tales of Colonel Jim Corbett hunting man-eating Tiger in India. As an art student it was Peter Beard's seminal work 'The End of the Game' that fascinated and inspired.
Many years later in Cape Town I met a man in a coffee shop surrounded by chocolate Labradors, tanned and fit he was between jobs, he was a professional hunter, the seed was sown, I wanted to see the World through his eyes.
For the uninitiated he is at the coal face, above him is a network of outfitters and agents who supply him with clients who pay for his vast experience.
These Professional Hunters lead the modern day safaris, they are complex individuals, quiet and yet gregarious, hunters and yet conservationists. Their clients are as complex as their hosts, these are not the priviledged of old but the leaders of today.
This work will seek to explore the intricate and complex relationship between man and animals and how both struggle to adapt to their changing environments.
untitled, huntress with buck # I, south africa
untitled, bloodied hunter # IV, south africa
bloodied huntress, namibia
leopard hunter, namibia
hunting party, eastern cape, south africa
elephant hunter at dawn, zimbabwe
bow hunter, south africa
leopard hunting, zimbabwe
hunter, south africa
barefoot hunter, south africa
huntress with wilderbeast, namibia
hunters, south africa
bloodied hunter with white springbok # I, south africa
young hunter, south africa
leopard hunting # II, namibia
hunters at old farm # I, south africa
father and son hunters # I, south africa
xhosa huntsman with lynx # I, south africa
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