Photographer
Amos Chapple works for Radio Free Europe. He went on an illegal tusk
hunt in Siberia with the agreement to not share any names. See, the idea
is that ivory from mammoth tusks are "ethical" in that no animals are
killed to obtain it. That does not make the plundering of mammoth
remains legal. But the market for such ivory in China is too much to
resist.
In posting the album of images to reddit,
Chapple said, "Every summer, men head into the Siberian wilderness to
hunt for mammoth tusks, I joined one expedition & watched tuskers
get rich, get drunk & nearly die." When someone remarked on the
photo of the mosquitoes biting bare feet, he said,
That's me :). I needed to show how big a deal the mozzies were, that was the most effective way I could do it in a photo.
I
fell in the river. When I took one shoe off to squeegee my sock the
mozzies descended - then I realized it was a good photo so I took the
other shoe off, waited for 40 hellish seconds & took this pic.
The things a photographer will go through for the right image! You can read the extensive
story of the expedition here, or a shorter form
in an imgur album.
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