Melanie Wenger
Erik Grimland, Bushland, Amarillo, Texas. Unloading the zebras trophy his daughter killed din South Africa two years ago.
Bushland, Texas. Police blocking the road as a fire threatens Amarillo's suburbs. The fire will destroy hectares and kill cattle.
Charara safari area, Kariba. Back to camp with today's praize. Kitchen boys retrieve the bushbuck. Marty will take the head and skin back to the US. ' That will make a wonderful carpet ', he says. The meat will be grilled on a barbecue some night later.
Oryx down, J-Bar-J ranch, Amarillo, Texas Oryx down, after the storm, Matt the vet decided on with stag he wanted. An oryx hunt costs $5.000 in Texas. Matt did not pay this time as he was invited.
For the celebration of the third anniversary of the revolution, February 17th, around 20 000 people gathered on Marthyr's Square in Tripoli. Mostly young men, singing all together the songs of the Revolution.
Nki Reservation - South Cameroon Living Nki reservation entering Bomba Bee national Park, this is the only road leading to South Cameroon.
Bomba Bek National Park - South Cameroon Parfait makes a break in a stream near the salt ponds of Pondo. He is the only one of the team to be armed; his old MAS 36 does not bear the weight against the CAR imported automatic weapons of poachers. Six month ago, they found one of the rangers hanged in the forest. And then, you must know that the rifle is not charged. Parfait fait une pause dans un cours d'eau pres des salines de Pondo. Il est le seul de l'equipe a etre arme; son vieux MAS 36 ne fait pas le poids face aux armes de guerre utilisees par les braconniers tres violents envers les eco-gardes. Et puis, il faut savoir que le fusil n'est pas charge.
Communal area near Bomba-Bek - South Cameroon Blaise, the Baka elephant tracker during his mission. The arrows, made by hand, are covered with a natural poison which kills their prey. He knows every inch of the forest, simply follows the tracks, in silence and with patience.
Melanie Wenger is a documentary photographer and a storyteller. She develops long-term documentary stories exploring photography, sound and video. Her work explores human nature and captures the intimate connection between man and nature. Melanie is a National Geographic Explorer, based in Belgium. She has a bachelor's degree in literature and a master's degree in journalism. She collaborates with international magazines such as National Geographic, Stern, Le Figaro Magazine and Geo among others.
In her early career, she worked as a news photographer in Belgium for a local agency. She then turned to long-term documentary focusing on human rights, migration and sexual violence issues in Libya, Cameroun, the Philippines, Columbia and Mexico.
In 2017, she won the HSBC Photography Prize for a long-term documentary series about the intimate life of an elderly woman living in an isolated part of Brittany: Marie-Claude. Her monograph Marie-Claude was published by Actes Sud the same year.
She participated in LensCulture Emerging Talent 2018 and at her work appeared in the Visa pour l'image festival 2019. Her work as been exhibited at the Mills Pond Gallery in New York, in the Ester Woerderoff Gallery in Paris and in other photographic museums in Europe.
Based in: Paris, France
Website: www.melaniewenger.com
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Books: Marie-Claude