About this episode

Matt Jacob interviews photographer David Chancellor about the complexities of documentary photography and wildlife conservation.

On this episode, I sat down with David Chancellor, the award-winning documentary photographer behind ‘Hunters’, ‘Handle Like Eggs’, and the Taylor Wessing Prize-winning portrait ‘Huntress with Buck’, for a conversation about the moral grey areas of documentary photography, trophy hunting, wildlife conservation. David has spent decades photographing human-wildlife coexistence across Africa, sleeping beside trophy hunters for weeks at a time, documenting leopard hunting in Namibia that was late...

People in this episode

Host: Matt Jacob

Guest: David Chancellor

Topics covered

• documentary photography
• trophy hunting
• wildlife conservation
• human-wildlife coexistence
• moral grey areas

Keywords

• documentary photography
• trophy hunting
• wildlife conservation
• David Chancellor
• human-wildlife coexistence

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Hunters, Handle Like Eggs, Huntress with Buck

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