Brent Stirton

Brent Stirton is usually absurdly busy. On average he spends eight or nine months a year travelling the world, documenting issues such as Aids, wildlife crime, conservation and blindness. Often this will involve visiting dozens of countries in any 12-month period – but his normal workflow has been curtailed due to the global pandemic and, for the first few months of 2021, kept him grounded in his California home, from where he spoke to Digital Camera.

Stirton was originally a print journalist in his home country of South Africa – but, at one point, rather than teaming up with a photographer to accompany him on stories, he saved up and bought a secondhand Canon A1 camera. Beginning a new storytelling path that combined words and