Fine art wildlife photography - East Africa and Northern California by Matthew Gillooley
Fine Art Wildlife Photography

Wildlife

Patience made visible. Award-winning wildlife photography from East Africa and Northern California.

To listen is to love. There isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story. This guides how I see the world.

On my last trip to Kenya, I was not scheduled to go on safari. I was there to document NGO work so I had portrait and wide-angle lenses. No super telephoto. No wildlife glass. But a three day gap emerged at the halfway mark. I spoke to a friend, who knew another friend, who knew of another friend that had space in a pasture to pitch a borrowed tent and a driver who could take me out mornings and afternoons. I slept on the ground within a few feet of cow dung for two nights to have a crack at three game drives. I needed to see the Mara differently. Contextual. Abstract. Not the telephoto version everyone brings home. It ended face to face with a cheetah.

That instinct carried through four trips to East Africa and continues in the field across Northern California. Wildlife photography that prioritizes the animal in its world over the animal in isolation.

Predators

Lions, cheetahs, and leopards. Observed at close range across the Maasai Mara and the greater Kenyan bush.

Elephants

Presence, patience, and memory. Photographed across the Mara ecosystem and the landscapes they reshape by moving through them.

Megafauna

Rhinos, giraffes, and zebras. Scale and the quiet authority of animals that occupy the frame the way they occupy the land.

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