Young photographer Nadezhda Kireyeva’s travelogue through Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Tanzania celebrates the cyclical behaviors of animal survival, alternating between romantic landscapes, beautiful portraits of savanna dwellers, and tragic hunting scenes.
Against the backdrop of a pristine and multifaceted Africa, the viewer is called upon to immerse himself in these depictions of the predator universe, always poised between taking the side of the victim or that of the perpetrator. In the freedom of interpretation left to the reader, the possibility opens up for a novel alternative to the usual way of looking at wildlife photography.
Lions, tigers, hyenas, panthers, cheetahs, hippos, as well as giraffes, zebras, and gazelles compose a primer on the unpredictability of wild interactions, but also an exciting union of colors, textures, plastic poses, predatory tactics, rituals, and moments of peaceful coexistence. It is possible, then, to think of Nadezhda as an explorer of iconographic frontiers, as her work does not fit into a specific stylistic category.
Nadezhda Kireyeva, photographer, painter and jewelry designer. She is studying medicine to become a medical geneticist. Her dream is to create a private reserve in Africa dedicated to animals and a clinic to collect DNA from all wild animals, to develop genetic engineering tools that can save species such as cheetahs, which suffer from lack of new genes, hereditary diseases, rheumatic problems and reproductive difficulties.
