I am pleased to say that I am returning to the Oxo Gallery with an exhibition opening Friday 23 July and running to Sunday 15 August. We will be open Tuesday to Sunday from 12 noon to 6pm. (closed on Mondays)
I am looking forward to seeing you there.
Dear Friends,
I hope this message finds you well during these challenging times.
As many of you know, this week should have seen the opening of my annual Summer Exhibition at the gallery@oxo on London’s South Bank. Unfortunately, as with so many planned events, We have had to cancel. I will of course miss seeing you all. Last year, during the Exhibition’s four weeks run, the gallery saw more than fourteen thousand visitors through its doors, so it will be a much quieter time for me this year. The good news is, however, that I am taking this year’s Exhibition online, where you can view many of my favourite images from around the globe which I hope you will enjoy.
Hopefully it won’t be too long before I can return to the Masai Mara in Kenya. Despite having travelled to all seven continents, it is still one of my favourite places on earth and a place I visit often, not only as a photographer, but also for my charity, Hoopers Africa Trust (HAT). With Kenya going into lockdown and schools and universities closing, our HAT students have been sent home to their villages.
Looking further ahead, I am pleased to announce that I will be exhibiting again at gallery@oxo in Summer 2021 and very much look forward to seeing you then if not before!
Please click here or on the image below to view my virtual summer exhibition:
For more information about HAT please go to: www.hoopersafricatrust.org
Warmest wishes,
Roger Hooper
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
It was great to see so many of you at my summer exhibition at the gallery@oxo. Thank you for your continued support throughout 2019 for both my photography and my charity. A huge thank you to those who purchased my new book “Latitude”, all the proceeds from the sale of my books are donated directly to my Charity Hoopers Africa Trust. Please click on the link to see some of the wonderful achievements of Hoopers Africa Trust in 2019.
I have added some new images from my recent trip to the Masai Mara and Olare Orok Conservancy in Kenya.
Click here or on the image below to view a gallery of further images:
I have just returned from the Masai Mara and Olare Orok Conservancy in Kenya with my friend and guide Paul Kirui. I was fortunate enough to photograph seven leopards, Kaboso and her cub, Tito and her cub, Siri, Fig and Figlet. It is easy to see why leopards really are my favourite animal to photograph. To view the images click on the link below:
Click here or on the image below to view a gallery of further images…
I am delighted to have been a contributing photographer for Remembering Lions, the fourth book in the highly acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series which was created by wildlife photographer Margot Raggett.
With a foreword by Jonathan & Angela Scott, Remembering Lions is full of beautiful images donated by more than 70 of the world’s top wildlife photographers with an aim to raise awareness of the plight facing lions and also to raise funds to protect them.
The book was launched this week at The Royal Geographic Society in London.
Remembering Lions Exhibition
There is a free exhibition of images from Remembering Lions at La Galleria, Pall Mall in London, running until Saturday, 26th October, 2019. The exhibition will be open every day from 10am to 5pm, except on Saturday, 26th October, when it will close at 4pm.
To purchase a copy of Remembering Lions and help support this wonderful cause, please go to:
https://buyrememberingwildlife.com
I have just returned from our biennial trustees visit to my Charity, Hoopers Africa Trust Kenya in the Masai Mara. The Charity provides education to disadvantaged girls in Kenya. See www.hoopersafricatrust.org for more information or to make a donation to this great cause.
Whilst there I was able to allocate some time to my photography. August is one of the best times for photographing the migrations of Wildebeest. With daunting crossings and hungry lions, there are plenty of wonderful photographic opportunities .
Below is one of my favourite images from the trip. Click on the image below to view a gallery of further images…
August 18th was the final day of my exhibition at the gallery@oxo, we had a staggering number of visitors through the door, more than 16,000 people over the duration of the exhibition. Thanks to all who visited and to those who helped make it such a great success.
My exhibition at the gallery@oxo is now is full swing, with currently more than 6,500 visitors. It continues until Sunday 18th August, open daily from11am to 6pm. Thanks to everyone who has visited and for all the kind comments.
In February I visited Amboseli, Lewa Wildlife Conservancy and the Masai Mara in Kenya with my friends, Lucy Parratt from WWF and Anne and Mike, fellow WWF supporters. We visited the Masai Mara Predator Project, which is supported by WWF where we learned about some of the incredible work in which they are involved.
At Amboseli we saw large herds of elephants, some as many as 100 strong. We also had some great sightings of the snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro.
In the Masai Mara we saw lots of lions, with one pride made up of five females with ten cubs. We also had some good leopard sightings.
At Lewa Wildlife Conservancy we saw large numbers of both black & white rhino and the critically endangered Grevys Zebra. Lewa is one of the best places in the world to see rhinos and is now a UNESCO World Heritage site. At one watering hole we encountered five rhinos, alongside elephants and zebras, which is an incredibly rare sighting.
Click on the image below to view images from the trip.
Elephants in front of Mount Kilimanjaro
I have been busy over the past few months working on my new book, which will be my fourth. It is titled Latitude, wildlife images from across the globe. It will include images from the Arctic to the Antarctic, and be published in the spring. It will be ready for my summer exhibition back at the gallery@oxo, on London’s South Bank, which opens on 2 August and runs until 18 August. This is a preview of how the book cover will look.
As it is the season for pantomimes, I tried telling this leopard – “He’s behind you, oh no he’s not, oh yes he is”
I returned from Kenya at the end of November, and have only now found the time to update my blog with some images from that trip. I was lucky enough to spend two days with a leopard Tito with her two fully grown cubs. Seeing three leopards together like this is a very rare and special sight. I hope you like the images.
Click here or on the image below to see more images from this trip.
May I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year.