"Placing a well positioned remote camera with a wide angle lens allows for unique and intimate images. It is as if the rhino is walking out of the frame.

This shot was a big moment for me. This was my first real success with remotes and has always reminded me that it’s worth going for the low percentage opportunities, because the rewards are so much greater when you do pull it off. Seeing the three dimensionality for the first time made it clear to me that photographing dangerous wildlife with wide angle lenses from intimate viewpoints was the way forward.
"

Road Block, Lewa, Kenya.
20% of sales goes to support Lewa Conservancy
Available sizes
18"x22.97" Edition of 15
30"x38.29" Edition of 15
40"x51.05" Edition of 15

"Wildlife fine art photographer and conservationist, James Lewin, is entirely self-taught and first became interested in photography whilst in Kenya. He chooses to take black and white photographs using a wide-angled lens and shoots from a low level set against a dramatic background. This approach accentuates the magnitude of his subjects, most usually African wildlife.

James has held his own fundraising events whilst also donating prints to charity auctions. In 2018, at the National History Museum in London, his photograph ‘The Big Friendly Giant’ raised just over £4,000 at auction in aid of The Whitley Fund for Nature.

Several of James’s photographs have been shortlisted for the final round of judging in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year and in 2019, his photograph ‘The Baron of Borana’ received an Honourable Mention in The Monochrome Awards. He has won a number of other awards (Outdoor Photographer of the Year, BBC Wildlife and The Neutral Density Awards).

Alongside his love of photography, James is an ardent conservationist and donates a proportion of his profits to conservation charities to ensure the protection of the animals he photographs. The big tusker elephants are particularly close to his heart.

James's photographs are offered as archival pigment prints (the most commonly used among professional photographers), silver gelatin (the gold standard in black and white printing which surpasses archival pigment prints in longevity, quality and detail) and platinum palladium (these prints are made in a darkroom with photo chemistry and have the very best archival rating of any print - the image is embedded into the fibres of the paper, as opposed to an archival pigment print where the inks are sprayed onto the surface)."