Provocative photo project "Hunters and their prey"

The pictures of the British photographer David Chancellor "Hunters" (Hunters) captured the hunters of South Africa (South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia). The ambiguous photo project explores the eternal conflict of man and wild animals, hunter and victim. For both, it is a way to adapt to a changing environment.

David Chancellor (David Chancellor, website davidchancellor.com ) was born and grew up in London, the capital of Great Britain. Now he has been living and working in South Africa for a long time. The genre that the photographer represents is quite difficult to clearly characterize. However, we will call it a "documentary reportage".

Local gamekeeper with a shot lynx, South Africa

A young hunter with a face stained with blood, next to a dead antelope, South Africa

It was in Kenya that the tourist hunting industry was born — rich Europeans and Americans paid local farmers to become guides on their hunting safaris.

Hunter with a shot leopard, Namibia

Huntress with a killed wildebeest, Namibia

A huntress with a face slightly stained with blood, with a shot male antelope, Namibia

A hunter with a gazelle shot by him from a bow, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

Young hunter with antelope, South Africa

Hunter with giraffe, Ladysmith, South Africa

Young Hunter, South Africa

A family of hunters on an old abandoned farm, South Africa

Preparing for leopard hunting, Namibia

Hunter with a shot leopard, Namibia

Huntress with her assistants and a shot antelope nyala, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Hunters father and son, South Africa

A young hunter with a cell phone and a shot antelope, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Hunter with a lion shot and suspended, Kalahari, South Africa

A group of local rangers, Zimbabwe

Shot lioness, Kalahari, South Africa

Elephant shot while hunting, Zimbabwe

Hunter with an antelope nyala shot with a bow, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

Hunter enjoys a well-aimed shot from a long distance, Eastern Cape, South Africa

A hunter with a face stained with blood, with a shot white gazelle, South Africa

Professional hunter with his son, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

Hunter and his wife on a hunting farm, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Lioness's head in a cardboard box, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa