Shujaa
The Grevy's Zebra treks the ambient wilderness of Samburu National Reserve. Famed for their "Mickey Mouse" ears, the Imperial zebra is the largest equid and most threatened zebra species.
Shujaa
The Grevy's Zebra treks the ambient wilderness of Samburu National Reserve. Famed for their "Mickey Mouse" ears, the Imperial zebra is the largest equid and most threatened zebra species.
Awards
One Shot Photo Contest
2022Gold
Wildlife
Non Professional
Shujaa
The Grevy's Zebra treks the ambient wilderness of Samburu National Reserve. Famed for their "Mickey Mouse" ears, the Imperial zebra is the largest equid and most threatened zebra species.
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.
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