Painted dogs in Zimbabwe - Journeysmiths
Spend seven weeks travelling from source to sea along the Zambezi River, while documenting a series of endangered species along its banks. In Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe, we joined anti-poaching units to better understand the plight of painted dogs. Importantly, however, we wanted to explore how human communities could live in harmony with them. We needed to better understand the emotions behind protecting them and what they meant to the rangers working at ground level.
Hwange is a vast national park and painted dogs can be hard to find. Nevertheless, working with a small team of local fixers and specialist wildlife camera operators we managed to document their lives in the wild, and in captivity. Moreover, conservation in Southern Africa is a complex and often sensitive subject. We worked closely with Journeysmiths to create a film that accurately represented the ethics of their safari travel brand.
Hwange is a vast national park and painted dogs can be hard to find. Nevertheless, working with a small team of local fixers and specialist wildlife camera operators we managed to document their lives in the wild, and in captivity. Moreover, conservation in Southern Africa is a complex and often sensitive subject. We worked closely with Journeysmiths to create a film that accurately represented the ethics of their safari travel brand.
Hwange is a vast national park and painted dogs can be hard to find. Nevertheless, working with a small team of local fixers and specialist wildlife camera operators we managed to document their lives in the wild, and in captivity. Moreover, conservation in Southern Africa is a complex and often sensitive subject. We worked closely with Journeysmiths to create a film that accurately represented the ethics of their safari travel brand.
Published by The Telegraph as part of a four part series documenting travel from source-to-sea along the Zambezi River, this film, in collaboration with Rusty Mokoro, achieved significant critical acclaim. This included an award for a portfolio of work at the annual British Guild of Travel Writers MEAs. Besides raising the profile of Journeysmiths as a leading Africa travel specialist, it was used by Painted Dog Conservation and the Tusk Trust to promote their campaigns.
Andrew Purvis, Travel Commissioning Editor, The Telegraph
From tracking condors in Peru’s Colca Canyon to capturing the essence of wildlife conservation in Africa and filming his own alternative triathlon in the Seychelles, his video projects showed an editorial integrity that went way beyond clickbait and the mind-numbingly obvious visual content of that time.
