Greg du Toit Fine Art Prints - Gallery Represented

Gallery Represented

The images in this collection are all represented by the prestigious Art Photography Gallery in Cape Town, South Africa. This gallery, which represents the work of only a dozen or so photographers, opened its doors in July 2010 and has secured itself as the number 1 photography art gallery in Africa. If you would like to see my work in print, then pop past the shop and take a look. The gallery occupies a beautiful space close to the waterfront in Cape Town and specializes in providing unique photographic prints for art collectors as well as interior design projects. They also offer art consultation and an interior mock-up service.

The Last Hunter - Botswana’s famed Hunter Gatherers have been outlawed from hunting by their own government. This enchanting frame of ‘the last hunter’ visually presents the subject as vanishing.

Kasanka Sunrise - In Zambia’s Kasanka National Park each year, around November time, the largest mammal migration on planet earth takes place, when up to 8 million bats move into a tiny forest. Here you see the bats coming back to the forest after a night’s foraging in the Congo. Each bat has a wingspan of over one metre.

Elephant Forest - Zambia’s Lower Zambezi National Park is as wild as it gets and here you see a lone elephant bull enjoying a meal of pods from an Albida tree, in the beautiful afternoon light.

Gelada Landscape - Living on the high altitude mountain plateaus of Ethiopia’s Simien Mountains, you find the Gelada baboon. These hairy creatures sleep on the vertical cliffs, climbing up to the plateau every day, to feed on grass. Here a big male is distracted by a root tuber, allowing me to get close enough with a wide angle lens.

The White Wolf - Spending the night in a solo hide positioned in ‘no man’s land’ between Russia and Finland, I was rewarded with a glimpse of a white wolf, moving through the woods in the twilight.

Oryx in 3D - Photographing this herd of Oryx from a helicopter, over Namibia’s Namib desert, the animals resemble a pop-up children’s book.

Essence of Elephants - Elephants are mysterious sentient creatures, and I wanted to portray the mystery of these gentle giants in this frame. This photograph, taken in Botswana’s Mashatu Game Reserve, was awarded the highest accolade in world wildlife photography when it beat out 47 000 other entries to win the BBC and Natural History Museum’s ‘Wildlife Photographer of the Year’ photo contest.

Buffalo in the Rain - A Cape Buffalo in Kenya’s Lake Nakuru National Park stands in the rain; the giant tropical raindrops made visible by the sun’s rays.

A Stand of Flamingoes - Here a stand of flamingoes are seen marching in the same direction, their red legs standing out against the black volcanic mud of Kenya’s Lake Magadi.

Zebra Forest - A zebra stands in front of an Acacia forest on the floor of Kenya’s Great Rift Valley.

Leopards on the Prowl - There are few better places to photograph leopard than South Africa’s Greater Kruger National Park. Here a mother leopard and her teenage son are on the prowl. I employed a slow shutter speed to convey a sense of movement.

Pelican Mist - Kenya’s Lake Nakuru is a favourite haunt for pelicans. Here, in the pre-dawn light, a flock of pelicans are seen standing in the mist with one on approach. The wall of the Great Rift Valley makes for a pleasing backdrop.

Stork Impressions - The Great Rift Valley is synonymous with many famous lakes, and Lake Nakuru in Kenya, is one such lake. Here you see a pelican, two feeding flamingoes, and a stork in the foreground, on a steamy morning in the tropics.

Londolozi Lion - It was a cold winter’s morning in South Africa’s Londolozi Game Reserve when I took this backlit portrait of one of the dominant male lions in the area, as he sniffed the air for pheromones.

Bushman Impressions - A young bushman in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve wears a set of Steenbok horns, which his ancestors wore when stalking game. Crouching in the grass, the horns tied to the hunter’s forehead, resemble a Steenbok, helping put potential quarry at ease.

Keeping up with Mom - Elephants are excellent mothers and always place themselves between perceived danger and their babies. Here an elephant, in Botswana’s Northern Tuli Game Reserve, does just this. I managed however, to focus through the mother’s legs, and onto the baby.

Shadow and Soul - There are few places wilder than the backwaters of Zimbabwe’s Mana Pools National Park. It was here that I was camped when a pack of Cape Hunting Dog (also known as painted wolves or wild dog), killed an impala antelope. The subsequent feeding frenzy resulted in a plume of dust, onto which my subject's shadow is cast.

An Implausibilty of Wildebeest - The Great Migration sees 1.7 million wildebeest cross the Mara River every year, in Kenya’s famed Masai Mara Game Reserve. I have been photographing this migration for the past 17 consecutive years and here you see the vast herds mulling about on the riverbank, surrounded by dust, trying to pluck up the courage to cross.

Simply Africa - In the Great Rift Valley of Kenya, the Maasai tribe carry out a pastoral lifestyle. Their cattle are their treasure and here I record a herder standing among his cows, in the late afternoon light and dust.

Dusk and Dust - In Kenya’s Rift Valley, in a remote part of Maasai-land, when the cow herders get close to home, the village children come out to greet them. Scenes like this are carried out on a daily basis in this remote corner of Africa.