FOR A PHOTOGRAPHER who has been following hounds with camera for the best part of 15 years, it never really occurred to me to investigate photographing hunting by actually getting on a horse myself. My preferred mode of transport was a quad bike. That was until I was tasked with documenting two superlative adventures from horseback in Patagonia and Kenya. These trips were the catalyst for me to re-evaluate the approach I had taken my whole career. They proved to push me out of my comfort zone in spectacular fashion.
For full disclosure, I need to admit that I spent all of about 30 minutes on a horse during a day’s coverage of the now-disbanded Pentyrch hunt for in 2010. I had to swap briefly from quad bike to horse in order to cross a tricky tract of ground to reach the hounds above old mineshafts in the depths of the Welsh valleys. Apart from that, I’ve barely had an opportunity to sit on a horse for 10 years. I blame major
