Provocative photo project "Hunters and prey"

Provocative photo project "Hunters and prey"

Categories: Africa | Animals | Conflict | Photo project

Images of British photographer David Chancellor "Hunters" (Hunters) captured hunters of South Africa (South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia). Ambiguous, the project explores the eternal conflict between man and wild animals, the hunter and the victim. For those and for others it is a way to adapt to the changing environment.

Provocative photo project "Hunters and prey"

David Chancellor (David Chancellor, website davidchancellor.com) was born and raised in London the capital of great Britain. Now for a long time, lives and works in South Africa. The genre, the photographer, clearly describe quite difficult. However, we will call this "documentary".

Provocative photo project "Hunters and prey"

The local Ranger with the dead trot, South Africa

In the early twentieth century hunting Safari in East Africa became a fashionable hobby among members of the privileged classes, in particular the inhabitants of Britain and the United States.

Provocative photo project "Hunters and prey"

Young hunter with a face covered in blood, next to a dead antelope, South Africa

The completion of the railway in Uganda in 1901 facilitated access to this closed territories of the British East Africa (present-day Kenya), home to many large animals, especially elephants, lions, buffaloes and rhinos. White hunter served this rich clients guide, teacher, and protector.

Provocative photo project "Hunters and prey"

In Kenya originated industry tourism hunting — rich Europeans and Americans pay local farmers to become guides in their hunting Safari.

Provocative photo project "Hunters and prey"

Hunter to shot a leopard, Namibia

Soon, like the tourism industry began to appear in other African territories. Now South Africa is the world's largest industry of hunting.

Provocative photo project "Hunters and prey"

Hunter with a dead wildebeest, Namibia

Hunting is in full swing in Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia, a little less in Zambia, Mozambique and Swaziland.

Provocative photo project "Hunters and prey"

The huntress face, slightly stained with blood, shot a male antelope, Namibia

In recent years, increased hunting industry in South Africa, partly because of the increase in breeding wild animals in damage to the cattle, which are especially negatively impacted by drought and the economy.

Provocative photo project "Hunters and prey"

Hunter with a Gazelle, they shot from a bow, Eastern Cape, South Africa

But the project "Hunters" by David Chancellor not only reflects this situation. His series is a study of the conflict between man and nature, the complex relations that exist between humans and animals, hunters and hunted.

Provocative photo project "Hunters and prey"

The young huntress with buck, South Africa

Provocative photo project "Hunters and prey"

Provocative photo project "Hunters and prey"

Hunter with a giraffe, Ladysmith, South Africa

Provocative photo project "Hunters and prey"

A young hunter, South Africa

Provocative photo project "Hunters and prey"

The family that preys on the old abandoned farm, South Africa

Provocative photo project "Hunters and prey"

Preparing for the hunting leopard, Namibia

Provocative photo project "Hunters and prey"

Hunter to shot a leopard, Namibia

Provocative photo project "Hunters and prey"

Hunter with his assistants and a wounded antelope naloi, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Provocative photo project "Hunters and prey"

Hunters father and son, South Africa

Provocative photo project "Hunters and prey"

Young hunter with a cell phone and shot an antelope, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Provocative photo project "Hunters and prey"

Hunter shot and hung from a lion, Kalahari, South Africa

Provocative photo project "Hunters and prey"

A group of local Rangers, Zimbabwe

Provocative photo project "Hunters and prey"

Shooting lion, Kalahari, South Africa

Provocative photo project "Hunters and prey"

Shot for hunting elephant, Zimbabwe

Provocative photo project "Hunters and prey"

A huntress with the buck naloi shot from a bow, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Provocative photo project "Hunters and prey"

Hunter enjoys a well-aimed shot from a distance, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Provocative photo project "Hunters and prey"

Hunter with a face covered in blood, shot a white Gazelle, South Africa

Provocative photo project "Hunters and prey"

Professional hunter with his son, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Provocative photo project "Hunters and prey"

Hunter and his wife on a hunting farm, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Provocative photo project "Hunters and prey"

The head of a lioness in a cardboard box, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Keywords: Conflicts | Animals | Conflict | Africa | Extraction | Savannah | Hunting | Safari | Hunter | Habitat | Photo project

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