TITLE: Mother and Child

A tender moment captured between a Mother and Child from the Mishaya Gorilla Group in the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda.

AUTHOR: Sam Clark (New Zealand)

Sam has had a love affair with Africa since she can remember, venturing there for the first time in 2009.

Visiting as a professional landscape photographer, Sam’s passion for the African wildlife and the deep spiritual connection she felt, converted her to pursue full time African Wildlife Photography, with images now sold worldwide. Her work has also been published in numerous publications and she has exhibited in NZ, Australia and London.

With the deep respect for all living creatures, and compassion to look after them, came the natural progression into the world of conservation. Sam is a firm believer that photography plays an important role in the conservation industry. ‘If we can educate people, evoke emotion, encouraging people to feel compassion towards our wildlife through powerful imagery, then people will want to look after and protect what we have’ says Sam.

Sam uses her images to raise funding towards several conservation and humanitarian organizations.

Now running small group African photographic safaris, and even though photography based, all have an underlying conservation awareness incorporated into each itinerary.
Sam leads various tours on demand to countries in both Africa and Indonesia.

As well as Giclee prints, Sam also carries her ‘Wild Living’ Home and Office Decor range.

She is rapidly developing a global reputation as an Animal Communicator and Reiki/Intuitive Healer of both domestic and wild animals with her business; WILDtalk.

Sam is currently writing a book on her work.

Originally from New Zealand, Sam now resides in Victoria, Australia with her two children and cats.