THE PRACTICE • ARTIST
I started as a painter. Canvas first, then walls, then somewhere in East Africa the world became the frame.
My work lives at the edge of wild instinct and careful looking. Animals are not my subjects. They are the artists — old earth sculpting itself.
Art translates what we cannot witness. It remembers what the world is learning to forget.
We belong to the wild.
Not apart from it.
PEOPLE OF AFRICA
The Last Keepers
of Open Land
I came to photograph wildlife. I left understanding that the wildlife and the Samburu are not separate stories.
They are the same one.
Deanna
DeShea
She does not pursue the perfect shot. She pursues stillness. She travels alone through Kenya and Tanzania. That changes what you see.
A portion of every acquisition supports named conservation partners across East Africa.
Every purchase supports conservation directly. Deanna works with Reteti Elephant Sanctuary, Care for Wild, and community-led initiatives across East Africa. The work exists because the wild does — and the wild exists, in part, because of the people who choose to live with it on their walls.








