TITLE: Cheetahs of the Savannah

Cheetahs are such incredibly fascinating creatures. Sleek, fragile and built for life in the endless plains of the East African savannah. I curated this series to showcase their slender, unmistakably svelte forms, the way their fur catches the light, the magical way they seem to coalesce out of the grass, and how weather affects their behaviour.

AUTHOR: Zhayynn James (India)

Wildlife photography is a passion and a means of artistic expression for me, as both, a lover of nature and as a designer. I grew up on the outskirts of Chennai, surrounded by nature and wildlife, waking to the sounds of sparrows, catching dragonflies, exploring monsoon soaked fields, chasing fish and frogs when the streams overflowed. Experiences that shaped my love of the wild open spaces that we have since lost.

I am a 2nd generation Landscape Architect, with a Bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of New South Wales, Australia. This avenue of professional art, combined with my lifelong love of nature and wildlife found new expression in photography. From the moment I picked up my first DSLR in 2013 and began to reconnect with the wild, I knew that this was a siren call that would always tug at my soul.

To me, photography is the art of telling a story without words and through my images I try to bring those stories to life. Stories that convey a sense of place, of scale and context, the emotion of a moment, the awe of a spectacle, of love, of struggle, of life and death. Through these images I hope to kindle an interest in the wild, a curiosity to know more about the natural world, to bolster conservation and to challenge a new generation to get out there and explore the wonders of our planet.