Elmo

LOWLAND GORILLA SERIES, 2023LARGE 56” x 84” Unframed 71” x 99” FramedEdition of 12STANDARD 37” x 56” Unframed 52” x 71” FramedEdition of 12“I WANTED A HEAD-ON STARE, AND IF THE LIGHT COULD CATCH THE EYES, THEN SO MUCH THE BETTER.” I have photographed Mountain Gorillas in Rwanda with varying success over the last ten years - I think our hit rate is around 20% - meaning only one out of every five treks up Volcanoes National Park has yielded anything. I think that’s about right - it’s not easy at 10,000 feet in the rainforest, and the best of my work now hangs in the Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Fund in Kinigi, Rwanda. I am glad they don’t display my average pictures, of which there are many. I recently had the chance to work on a fundraiser with another great American conservationist - Ramona Bass - a legendary figure in Fort Worth - who has offered a sanctuary for displaced Western Lowland Gorillas for many years. The male adult Lowland gorillas have less hair than mountain