Digital Photographer

PROJECT WILD

When a tragedy happens, there are two options: to let it destroy you, or to try to find any positives and forge a hopeful way forward. Wildlife photographers Helle and Uri Løvevild Golman have chosen hope.

While working on a documentary about critically endangered lowland gorillas and forest elephants in Gabon in 2017, Uri was attacked at a local market by a suspected poacher from Boko Haram, armed with a knife. In the following fight for their lives, Uri received serious injuries to his heart, liver and a major artery. During heart surgery at a Gabon hospital, he clinically died for two minutes. It took a month before he could even speak.

Left with brain damage, caused by the loss of blood, Uri is

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