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Amboseli Rhythm

At the light of dawn, elephant herds waver the dry lake bed of Amboseli in long caravan lines toward the wetlands. Amboseli is famed for gardens of merry elephants browsing the marshlands and dust-swept grasslands.

Awards

One Shot Photo Contest

2022

Honorable Mention

Wildlife

Non Professional

Amboseli Rhythm

At the light of dawn, elephant herds waver the dry lake bed of Amboseli in long caravan lines toward the wetlands. Amboseli is famed for gardens of merry elephants browsing the marshlands and dust-swept grasslands.

About Artist

Deanna DeShea

With a foundation in fine art, my work emerges at the intersection of wild instinct and visual poetry. Traveling solo across Africa as a female photographer, I don’t chase perfection—I seek presence. Each frame is a study in impermanence, in beauty that vanishes, in lives suspended between survival and silence. I see animals not just as subjects, but as the original art forms of the wild—sculpted by evolution, drawn in shadow and sun. Their movements echo brushstrokes; their forms dissolve into texture, into tone. Light and dust become collaborators. Patience becomes a medium. My imagery is shaped by an art practice rooted in restraint—negative space, earth-toned palettes, and the quiet tension between form and void. These are not just photographs; they are echoes. This is a love letter in chiaroscuro. A requiem in pigment. A devotion to the untamed. Through my lens, I stand with the voiceless—against the spectacle of trophies, against confinement, against the quiet erasure of species we are losing in real time. Art can remember what the world forgets.

Deanna DeShea

Photographic Areas of Focus

Fine Art, Minimalism, Nature, Photojournalism, Wildlife

Location

United States of America

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