Till Death Do Us Part
Serengeti, Tanzania, 2023
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Standard: 40" x 31"
Large: 60" x 45"
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Eighteen months ago we released Rumble in the Jungle. It’s been my best selling print ever since and I’ve always wondered well, what next?
Witnessing real fights between animals is not overly rare, but to have clashes that translate in to strong images is. This clash between two white rhinos on Ol Pejeta Conservancy was the harshest between rhino I have seen.
Neither was willing to back down and for 45 minutes they went at each other so violently one was almost flipped over (a remarkable feet given they both weigh north of two tonnes.)
Such was the ferocity of their fight we were certain the only way it was going to end would be if, or perhaps when, one died.
As blood started to pour from wounds on the faces of both rhino and we were certain one was about to lose and pay for it with its life, a larger male joined the scene, immediately intimidating these two in to submission and abruptly ending the fight, much like a boxing referee stepping in at the 11th hour and much, I must admit, to everyone’s relief.