PEDRO JARQUE KREBS

The wildlife confidant

My photographic work aims to raise awareness among people of the beauty and diversity of wildlife, and above all of its terrible fragility.

PEDRO JARQUE KREBS

Ferocious beauties isolated from all context, as though they had been captured in their most secret intimacy, this is the remarkable artistic gesture of Peruvian photographer Pedro Jarque Krebs, restoring to the animals some of their stolen dignity. After studying philosophy at the Université de Paris La Sorbonne, the Peruvian photographer has won numerous awards throughout his prolific career, largely due to his captivating wildlife portraits. Born in Lima, he has travelled to the heart of the Amazonian wilderness since the age of ten and specialised in landscape photography from the 1980s onwards. Subjects of fascination that are very present in his work, the wild animals that he photographs in natural reserves have earned him multiple awards, such as the Sony World Photography Awards, the Prix de la Photo (PX3), the Moscow International Foto Awards (MIFA), National Geographic Photographer of the Month, and International Photography Awards (IPA). ... See more See less

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By immortalizing wild beasts in their natural environment and then working on the lighting in post-production to make them appear against a neutral background, Pedro Jarque Krebs claims to help break down the barrier that we have built over the centuries around our relationship with nature. animal world.

The play of shadows and lights thus creates the atmosphere necessary to approach the animals emotionally.

References

Exhibitions

Russie The Royal Photographic Society, Royaume-Uni - 2016.

PHOTO magazine France - 2016.

National Geographic France - 2016.

Awards

SONY World Photography Awards
2018, 2019 & 2022

Siena Awards - Italie
2020 & 2021

Bird Photographer of the Year
2018

Photography award - Paris (PX3)
2016

Moscow International Foto Awards (MIFA) - Russie
2016

Fine Art Photography Awards (FAPA)
2016

Int'l Photography Awards (IPA) - USA
2016

Interview

What made you want to do wildlife photography?

I think that for a wildlife photographer, the greatest satisfaction is to be able to convey not only the beauty of animals, but also the message that is implicit within them, which is that of the conservation of biodiversity (...) and I hope that my portraits will serve to raise awareness of this problem.

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