TITLE: If I was a baby elephant

This series is like a time strip of a few minutes in the life of a baby elephant. What does he think about when he is with his mother along the river? "I feel big" but in fact, "I am small". "I feel protected", but I know "I am vulnerable". But anyway, "I feel happy" to stay with my mother ! The series was taken along the Chobe river, in Botswana, in May 2021. It was a really good time to see the animals because there were no tourists. It was possible to get very close to all the animals, especially the elephants

AUTHOR: Xavier HAVAUX (Belgium)

I’m a Belgian amateur photographer. I started very young, as I was only 8 years old when my father explained me how to use the Leica M2 of my grand-father. From that time, I did mainly black and white pictures in a way I can say that “I see " in black and white. When the digital cameras appeared, I continued to use my argentic cameras (Nikon F3 and F4s) for few years. For several (mostly bad) reasons, I stopped to take pictures for pleasure and that’s only in 2010 that I came back to photography, this time with digital cameras and mainly for professional purposes (still no real fun to take pictures). In 2014, on the occasion of my first trip to Namibia, I re-opened my mind to photography for pleasure and especially to black and white pictures. Since that time, I travelled mainly in Africa and I definitively came back to my first love : black and white pictures! And that’s again really a great pleasure for me! Basically I consider that I’m mostly a travel photographer, interested by nature, landscapes (including nightscapes), local people in their local environment (especially kids). Most of my pictures are highly contrasted, as is life! You can follow my travels at www.reveler-linstant.be