Defender in the Kalahari Night

• Photographer
  Grant Stirton, Canada
• Website
  https://www.grantstirton.com

Taken as part of an expedition looking at water security in South Africa.
A trusty Landrover Defender was provided to the team as they drove off-
road from Johannesburg to the Atlantic Ocean.

Grant Stirton is a photo-based artist residing near Ottawa, Canada.
Specializing in marine environments, his passion for exploring the natural world is informed by his experience as a photojournalist and marine expedition guide. His practice is a synthesize of modern and historical process, as he works across digital and analog formats, producing hand-made platinum, silver and archival pigment prints.
He is a graduate of SPEOS Photographic Institute in Photojournalism, the University of Toronto in Management and is currently an artist in residence with the School of Photographic Arts Ottawa.

Awards 2022 Group Exhibition, RI Centre for the Photographic Arts, Black and White Exhibition, Providence, RI
2022 Group Exhibition, Red Bluff Art Gallery, Art 4 Animals, Rancho Tehama Reserve, CA
2022 Group Exhibition, Exhibitionzone, Emptiness (Online)
2015 Group Exhibition, AGORA Gallery, On the Rhino Front Line, New York, NY
2014 Group Exhibition, Magnum Photos, Group Exhibition (SPEOS), Paris, France
2014 Group Exhibition, SPEOS Photographic Institute Student Exhibition, Paris, France

2022 ND Awards, 2nd Place – Professional Nature Category, Series, Underwater Statue Park
2015 National Geographic Online, Island's Assignment Editor's Selection
2015 Honourable Mention, PX3 Prix de la Photographie, Series
2015 Honourable Mention, PX3 Prix de la Photographie, Underwater Nature
2015 Honourable Mention, PX3 Prix de la Photographie, Defender in the Kalahari Night
2014 3rd Place, PX3 Prix de la Photographie, Underwater Nature