Remembering African Wild Dogs
THE RESULTS ARE IN! Feast your eyes on the images chosen to appear in the next Remembering Wildlife fundraising book series from Wildlife Photographers United
Rem em be ring African Wild Dogs will be the sixth book in the charity book series started by wildlife photographer Margot Raggett in 2016. She decided to take action after seeing a poached elephant in Kenya, and started asking fellow wildlife photographers if they would contribute images to a fundraising book – this request launched the start of something special.
Remembering Elephant sand its successors Remembering Rhinos, Remembering Great Apes,
Remembering Lions and Remembering Cheetahs have between them raised more than £775,000/ US$1 million for 50 conservation projects across 24 countries.
Over 1,000 images in total were entered for
Remembering African Wild Dogs, which will feature images from wildlife photographers including Marsel van Oosten, Art Wolfe, Frans Lanting, Greg du Toit and Charlie Hamilton James – included under the ‘Wildlife Photographers United’ banner – plus 10 readers of DigitalCamera, who answered the call to enter images in issue 241.
About the winning images
To be chosen to appear in RememberingAfrican
WildDogs, readers had to submit images of wild dogs taken in the wild (no zoos or sanctuaries) in Africa. The judges were looking for striking and beautiful images, true to the original scene, with nothing added or taken away. Editing should have been kept to a minimum.
Buy the book, then visit the exhibition
RememberingAfricanWildDogs by Wildlife Photographers United will be published on 6 November, price £45. Each winner will receive a copy of the book and an invitation to the launch event at London’s Royal Geographical Society on 11 November (subject to Covid restrictions).
Prints of the winning images will also appear in the London exhibition to launch the book, and those prints will subsequently be sold to raise further money for the cause. Formoreinformationabouttheseries,
visit: www.rememberingwildlife.com