Same Otherness
Uganda. Bwindi, Impenetrable Forest.
A face from the Land of a Million Smiles – as Ugandans like to call their country – I’ll never forget: A gorilla juvenile.
Only about 1,063 Mountain Gorillas remain in the wild. 459 (according to the last 2019 Gorilla Census) live the Impenetrable Forest—a name that aptly describes the dense, lush jungle they call home. It was unlike anything I’d ever experienced. Photographing them meant navigating mostly low light due to thick vegetation—unless there was a rare opening in the canopy, like here, when the forest suddenly turned sun-drenched. But when everything aligned—light, movement, focus—magic happened.
A reminder that nature truly is both the art and the artist—and my work is merely an attempt to capture it.
Uganda. Bwindi, Impenetrable Forest.
A face from the Land of a Million Smiles – as Ugandans like to call their country – I’ll never forget: A gorilla juvenile.
Only about 1,063 Mountain Gorillas remain in the wild. 459 (according to the last 2019 Gorilla Census) live the Impenetrable Forest—a name that aptly describes the dense, lush jungle they call home. It was unlike anything I’d ever experienced. Photographing them meant navigating mostly low light due to thick vegetation—unless there was a rare opening in the canopy, like here, when the forest suddenly turned sun-drenched. But when everything aligned—light, movement, focus—magic happened.
A reminder that nature truly is both the art and the artist—and my work is merely an attempt to capture it.
Uganda. Bwindi, Impenetrable Forest.
A face from the Land of a Million Smiles – as Ugandans like to call their country – I’ll never forget: A gorilla juvenile.
Only about 1,063 Mountain Gorillas remain in the wild. 459 (according to the last 2019 Gorilla Census) live the Impenetrable Forest—a name that aptly describes the dense, lush jungle they call home. It was unlike anything I’d ever experienced. Photographing them meant navigating mostly low light due to thick vegetation—unless there was a rare opening in the canopy, like here, when the forest suddenly turned sun-drenched. But when everything aligned—light, movement, focus—magic happened.
A reminder that nature truly is both the art and the artist—and my work is merely an attempt to capture it.
