I started as a painter. Canvas first, then walls, then somewhere in East Africa the world became the frame.
I photograph alone. I move slowly. The images I return with are not documentation. They are fine art. They are also advocacy. Sometimes, they are both at once.
These are fine art images. Limited editions. Each one fights for something.
My work lives at the edge of wild instinct and careful looking. Animals are the artists — old earth sculpting itself.
We belong to the wild.
Not apart from it.
Where the wild endures.
Art remembers.
AFRICAN COLLECTIONS
Where the wild endures.
Art remembers.
Works made in the presence of Africa’s wild and its first peoples. Animals and Indigenous communities are encountered as living expressions of land, memory, and survival.
Each work emerges from direct observation—unmediated, unaltered, and without artificial fabrication.
A portion of all acquisitions supports conservation and community initiatives across Africa.
African Collections
Works made in the presence of Africa’s wild and its first peoples. Animals and Indigenous communities are encountered as living expressions of land, memory, and survival.
Each work emerges from direct observation—unmediated, unaltered, and without artificial fabrication. A portion of all acquisitions supports conservation and community initiatives across Africa.
Conservationist and photographer Deanna DeShea travels alone into Africa’s wild places. Her images are calm and earthy — quiet, honest records of animals and landscapes. The wild as it is. Still alive. Still worth protecting.
I can’t even begin to describe what I feel when I gaze upon your photos. To try and describe what I feel, I would say that I can feel their soul, and yours. Thank you for sharing.
Brown
THIS WORK DOES NOT EXIST APART FROM THE LAND IT COMES FROM. A PORTION OF ALL ACQUISITIONS SUPPORTS CONSERVATION AND COMMUNITY-LED INITIATIVES ACROSS AFRICA.
