Biography
Zana Briski is an Academy Award-winning director and photographic artist. She has spent 35 years travelling alone to remote wild places, photographing animals from the smallest insect to the largest whale. Her work transmits wonder and awe, reflecting her profound commitment to the natural world and an urgent call to witness its rapid disappearance.
“While I am on nature’s time, I feel an urgency to communicate my vision of the natural world as I watch species after species rapidly disappear from the planet by human hand,” says Zana.
In NIGHT WILD – PHOTOGRAMS OF ANIMALS MADE IN THE WILD, Zana has deepened her connection to and collaboration with wild animals by taking the camera out of the picture. She creates one-of-a-kind, life-sized photograms of wild animals at night in the field. These photographic prints are made directly onto light-sensitive photographic without a camera, lens or negative—only time, presence, and trust.