Description
Graham Springer is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is rooted in imagery of the natural world. He was born in Zimbabwe in 1976 and grew up in various parts of Southern Africa.
Between 2002 – 2014, he lived in the wilderness of northern Botswana working on documentary film projects for, amongst others, BBC, National Geographic and Smithsonian.
During this time in Botswana he undertook a long-term personal photographic project which resulted in a collection of large format monochrome prints titled Homage. 80 of these images are include in the book of the same name.
“Graham Springer is a voice for the wild. Through the lens of his camera and without a single caption, he has stirred in me a deep sense of relationship with his subjects. Every image, every animal speaks for itself. They do not need a caption. They reach out to you. The photographs, in warm monochrome, evoke a sense of timelessness and more … a sense of melancholy. How much longer will these animals continue to exist as they were born to? What will it take to finally realise that the wild animals of the world are as much a part of the human psyche as they are a part of the landscapes in which they belong?"
- Dr. Ian McCallum
