Graham Springer has lived and worked in the wilderness of Northern Botswana since 2001, working mostly as a film-maker and photographer. Filming and Photographing in this incredible place allows him to combine a strong creative drive with a love of this special African wilderness.

“Creative photography has captivated me since I was a young boy. I try not to take ‘standard wildlife’ photographs. I try instead to create interesting and creative images that have artistic photographic credibility, independent of subject matter. I try also, as much as one ever can, to capture the ineffable spirit of the wilderness in which I live. The result, I hope, is a collection of engaging images that convey my love for this African wilderness and that they inspire some sense of spirit of place in those that see them.”

Graham’s images are intended as fine art prints. All photographs are shot on film (35mm and 645 medium format) and then scanned using a state of the art high resolution scanner. A certain amount of mandatory digital work on the images is required after scanning but other than that, and careful cropping and colour tinting, the images are manipulated as little as possible. The images are then printed onto a heavy, finely textured cotton based art paper using an inkjet printer with special pigment inks. The only reason the images are digitised at all is because of the creative options inkjet printing processes provide. They are still however very much original photographic images.

ArtVault is proud to present his works please have a look at Graham’s collection