Namibia: Photographs From an Ancient Land by Wayne Osborn
Namibia, Photographs from an Ancient Land showcases landscape, portraiture and wildlife images from Pam & Wayne Osborn’s travels through the Namibian wilderness.
Namibia is a young country in an ancient land. It is sparsely populated with immense tracts of wilderness. Formerly known as South West Africa, it was colonised firstly by Germany and then South Africa. A bloody war of independence culminated in Namibia raising its own flag in the capital Windhoek in 1990.
It’s a land rich in photographic opportunities. From quiver trees and the rugged chasm of the Fish River Canyon, the classic towering sand dunes of Sossusvlei and the wildlife of the Etosha Pan. The ghost diamond-mining town of Kolmanskop reveals nature’s reclaim of a decaying settlement. Semi nomadic Himba tribes eking a subsistence existence provide a sobering contrast to our modern lifestyles.
ANZEC Member - Wayne Osborn
Wayne has been an active SCUBA diver and Underwater Photographer since 1974. He resides in Perth, Western Australia with his wife Pam. They have an interest in whale conservation and have travelled to the Azores, the Great Barrier Reef and Tonga to document sperm, minke and humpback whales. Wayne and Pam donate many of their images to whale researchers and have documented the migration of humpback whales along the Western Australian coast since 2006. Pam has photographed 2,500 individual humpbacks in that time. Their images have been included in numerous reference books and Wayne's image of a dwarf minke whale is on the cover of the 2nd edition of Marine Mammals of the World.Wayne was the Australian Geographic Australasian Nature Photographer of the Year in 2012.They have published a number of iBooks including "In Pursuit of Whales" and "A Long Lens in Africa - Birds of East & Southern Africa."
