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A gelada—a primate only found in the Ethiopian Highlands

by Patric Quillard.

2023 Black and White Photo Awards

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Patrice Quillard: Gelada

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By Patrice Quillard: Gelada! ‘During a trip to Ethiopia 🇪🇹, I wanted to photograph these magnificent monkeys. The wind was strong that day. It seemed an obvious disadvantage but I realised that the weather became an asset in the long hairs of the large males. I spotted one who seemed particularly annoyed by the violent gusts blowing over the highlands. With each squall, his long hairs rose in all directions. There was this moment when his gaze went insistently in the direction of the wind with a grimace that seemed to express all his nervousness’

By Cote Baeza Pooley: Fury! ‘This picture shows Calbuco, a volcano in southern Chile 🇨🇱, erupting and making the surroundings look small even though they aren’t. The photograph shows us the fury of the earth, making us feel how small we really are’

Jaume Llorens: Starlings Take Flight! ‘This is a negative image of the moment when a flock of starlings took flight from poplars near the lake of Banyoles, Catalunya, Spain 🇪🇸. Every day at sunset, a flock gathers here for a short time until they decide to take flight again to the place where they spend the night. Every day, the same routine at the same time and in the same place, moving as if they were a single organism. Convivial behaviour as a system of self-protection against external threats. My intention was to capture the beauty and poetry contained in that moment’

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🔥 A gelada (also known as a bleeding-heart monkey) yawns in Simien Mountains, Ethiopia. Photograph by Patrice Quillard 🔥

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Gelada in Ethiopia

Photographer: Patrice Quillard

The Lensculture Awards