At twelve years old, sitting in the back seat of a game viewer in northern Kruger, John Kinghorn didn’t know he was starting something that would shape the rest of his life. The drive had been quiet. Somewhere near Shingwedzi, a spurfowl flushed from the side of the road. “I didn’t quite know what it […]
At 22 years old, Mark Heystek already speaks about the land like someone who has walked it for a lifetime. He’s currently based at Brandwacht Game Reserve, home to Garden Route Safari Camp, where he works full-time as a field guide and also lives on the reserve. “It’s my workplace and my place of residence,” […]
Callum Perry is currently based in Amersham, England, but part of him still belongs to the wild landscapes of Southern and East Africa. He first arrived in South Africa at 18 on a volunteer placement just outside Pretoria. What was meant to be a short stint quickly turned into something bigger. He fell in love […]
Before he was a freshwater scientist in the United Kingdom, Tapiwa Zimunya was a boy roaming mountains. “I’d say my love for nature stems from the environment I grew up in,” he says. Forests, rivers, and rolling peaks surrounded his grandfather’s homestead in the eastern highlands of Zimbabwe. “There wasn’t much technology back then. These […]
Originally from a small town in Norway, Rune Kjelseth’s journey into photography began long before social media made it a career. “I bought my first camera when I was eleven,” he says. “A little point-and-shoot film camera. I didn’t know you could actually be a photographer back then, there just weren’t many where I grew […]
When we caught up with filmmaker and storyteller Bose Bonda, he was back home in Maun, Botswana, a gateway to the Okavango Delta and a place he says keeps his creativity grounded. “I was born about 470km from here,” he says. “I came to Maun for high school, and somehow I’ve always found my way […]
Dust clings to his boots, the kind that comes from long dirt roads and river crossings on two wheels. For adventure guide Joe Fleming, the journey begins wherever the tarmac ends. “I once hiked 100km through the Karoo in these boots,” he laughs, “normally I’d wear dedicated hiking gear for something like that, but the […]
