Written from the field.
Field Notes · John Wiseman
What happened before the shutter.
The encounters behind the photographs, told by the photographer who waited for them. Animal behaviour, the decisions made in the field, and the moments that stay long after the camera is packed away.
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One afternoon in Ranthambore.
Arrowhead made us wait. Then she let us meet her cubs.
First she checked the clearing. Then she lay down in front of our vehicle. Only then did her two cubs come out of the forest. Arrowhead was one of India’s most famous tigresses. When she died six years later, it made national news.
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Written about John · IRID Gallery Journal
John Wiseman: A Respectful Intrusion.
“The photograph never matters more than the subject.”
IRID Gallery’s profile of John’s practice: the thinking behind his first exhibition, Respectfully Intruding, his mentorship with Ken Duncan, the difference between a trophy and a portrait, and the hummingbird work that became some of his most collected photographs.