50cm x 33cm - 1/8 - 2026 - Unframed Print on Hahnemühle Natural Line Hemp 290g ( Naturally white tone and very fine texture for this paper, made of 60% hemp. This paper contributes to sustainable development and resource preservation ). Other formats available on request - signed and numbered - Certificate of authenticity
 
Battambang, Cambodia.
In this photograph, I wanted to capture raw, unfiltered emotion through the intense gaze of a northern pig-tailed macaque.
He came down from the mountain and looked me straight in the eye.
What a marvellous encounter! I have always loved monkeys.
There is something about them that feels so familiar, so close to us.
Their expressions, their gestures, the curiosity in their eyes; they seem to share so much of our own nature.
He paused for a moment, studying me, perhaps wondering what this strange human was doing there. Or maybe, more pragmatically, whether I was finally going to offer him a banana or a juicy mango!
Then, just as suddenly as he had appeared, he leapt into a tree, jumped to another, and vanished into the green canopy.
The encounter lasted only a few moments, but that gaze stayed with me. Sometimes, all it takes is a look to feel an unexpected connection between two very different worlds.