ENDANGERED: Fine Art & Photography Contest 2019 Submission

Loxodonta africana. In 1930 as many as 10 million wild elephants roamed huge swaths of the African continent. But decades of poaching and conflict have since decimated African elephant populations. In 2016 experts estimated that Africas elephant population had dropped by 111000 totaling 415 000.

Humans are causing the sixth mass extinction in Earth's History. I hope that with photographing endangered species with the wet collodion process, I am able to show the fragility of the biodiversity of species. I am exploring the wet collodion process, after developing a passion for this medium. I will take photos of endangered animals, creating wet collodion prints, to show the delicacy of the endangered species. By photographing endangered animals in the wet collodion process, my intent is to express the fragility of the animals situations, the deforestation, loss of habitat polluted environment, and human threats. The animals do not have voices to tell humanity that they are the cause of most of the impending extinction, with a process that is a slowly growing trend. Trying to capture an in-camera exposure and experimenting with the correct exposure will be a challenge, since the animals will not be stationary. The purpose of the project is to bring awareness to the destruction.

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