Will Burrard-Lucas - Wildlife photography
Cox Green Community Centre, Maidenhead, SL6 3AX
Tuesday 5th January 2027 7:45PM
I’m a Wildlife Photographer and I split my time between my home in the UK and my photography projects in Africa.
When I was young, my family spent several years living in Tanzania. My earliest memories are of being on safari and from those seeds grew a lifelong fascination with the natural world and a connection with the continent of Africa which continues to draw me back today. In 2012, my wife and I moved to Zambia for a year, and since 2017 I have predominately focused on projects in Kenya.
I endeavour to capture intimate portraits of animals that convey a sense of awe and wonder. To achieve this, I often prefer to get close and use a wide-angle lens. In the early days, I would crawl up to animals whenever possible, but there were limited subjects were this approach was feasible. I therefore built “BeetleCam”, a remote control camera buggy, which I use to capture close-up, ground-level photographs of potentially dangerous African wildlife. I have also developed an ecosystem of camera trap equipment, which I use to photograph shy and nocturnal wildlife.
In 2017, I started a project to document the last of Africa’s iconic elephants with tusks reaching down to the ground, in collaboration with the Tsavo Trust and Kenya Wildlife Service. In 2019, this culminated in a coffee table book, “Land of Giants”.
In 2019, I used my Camtraptions system to capture rare high-quality camera trap images of a melanistic leopard in Africa. My new book, “The Black Leopard”, was released in March 2021.
When I was young, my family spent several years living in Tanzania. My earliest memories are of being on safari and from those seeds grew a lifelong fascination with the natural world and a connection with the continent of Africa which continues to draw me back today. In 2012, my wife and I moved to Zambia for a year, and since 2017 I have predominately focused on projects in Kenya.
I endeavour to capture intimate portraits of animals that convey a sense of awe and wonder. To achieve this, I often prefer to get close and use a wide-angle lens. In the early days, I would crawl up to animals whenever possible, but there were limited subjects were this approach was feasible. I therefore built “BeetleCam”, a remote control camera buggy, which I use to capture close-up, ground-level photographs of potentially dangerous African wildlife. I have also developed an ecosystem of camera trap equipment, which I use to photograph shy and nocturnal wildlife.
In 2017, I started a project to document the last of Africa’s iconic elephants with tusks reaching down to the ground, in collaboration with the Tsavo Trust and Kenya Wildlife Service. In 2019, this culminated in a coffee table book, “Land of Giants”.
In 2019, I used my Camtraptions system to capture rare high-quality camera trap images of a melanistic leopard in Africa. My new book, “The Black Leopard”, was released in March 2021.
Event Details
From 7:45PM to 10:00PM
