George Logan is a concept advertising photographer from the UK and has been shooting over 30 years.  Recently he’s put together a book about lions with the Born Free Foundation who work around the globe.  They help and can provide sanctuaries so animals can live as normal a life as possible – but it will never compare to the wild.
George’s passion stems from his love of lions at a young age and frequently visits Kenya, Ethiopia, Zambia, Tanzania,Botswana, South Africa and Namibia.  Lions are definitely interesting animals, you all remember seeing them visiting zoos.  But to people like George its something they dislike and he’s doing his best to keep them in the wild through his charity work.  But time is short and they are rapidly becoming extinct because of humans.  He talks to us about the life of a lion, the Maasai warriors, poachers and conservation too.
When you look at George’s work you see a well executed plan and vision.  One of the funny one’s is the Costa Rica shoot for semi wild monkeys for Ikea.  We even discuss why its important for him to shoot the right way.  Another example of careful planning was the football “bad boys” project he worked on.  This was all about recreating iconic football moments with children and did really well, it most retweeted picture according to the daily mirror.
In this one we discuss:

chasing a cheetah with a Hasselblad
making images stand out
zoo’s effects
personal projects & belief
trajectory to extinction
seeing death
hypocrisy of helping
covid + human interference
importance of celebrities
dangers of shooting
skill vs technology


Random questions
Of course we have to have some fun, so find out why we discuss double camouflage !

Links
Book - pridebeforethefall.com
Charity - https://www.bornfree.org.uk/
Website - https://www.georgelogan.co.uk/

Friends
For all your c41 developing needs - https://filmdev.co.uk/
Large format cameras, medium format & accessories - https://chroma.camera/
Great and affordable zines from Static Age - https://www.staticage.co.uk/

*** COMPETITION TIME ***
As i've been recently saying, it's been pretty crap for most of us since COVID. So I got in touch with Kodak Alaris and a few friends to launch another competition.  Lots of prizes to be won, check out the website for more information.
https://phlogger.co.uk/2021-competition-time-with-static-age-kodak-alaris-zone-imaging-lab/

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