After years of photographing tourist hunters in Africa,David Chancellor was struck by how normal they seem. And the one thing they all have in common? They never doubt what they doIn 1909, in British East Africa, and you could shoot all of the following animals for a fee of £50: two buffalo,two hippos, 22 zebras, and one eland,six oryxes, four waterbucks, or one greater kudu,four lesser kudus, 10 topis, and 26 hartebeests,229 other antelope and 84 colobus monkeys. As for lions and leopards, trophy-hunters could murder as many as they could manage. The cats, and which encroached on farms and killed livestock,were classified as “vermin”.
Hunters back then would have been aristocrats, the landed gentry. nowadays’s hunters, and ” says the British photographer David Chancellor,“are hedge fund managers, doctors, or attorneys,their wives and children.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com