About David Harrison
I've been taking photographs for most of my (long) life — as a hobby, never as a profession, but seriously enough that I've carried a camera through most of the places I've traveled and most of the mornings I've watched from my window.
Wildlife is what I keep coming back to. There is something about being close to a wild animal — a silverback gorilla resting in the bamboo, a leopard stepping out of the shadows, a pelican skimming the water inches from your face — that quiets everything else down. The camera is partly a reason to be there and partly a way of paying attention. I've been lucky to spend time on safari in Kenya, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe, and luckier still to live on a stretch of the California coast where the birds put on a show most days of the week.
Landscapes are the other thread. I'm drawn to the places and moments where the light does something you don't expect — sunrise over a Maine harbor, snow on the café tables in Venice, the Aegean turning gold off Santorini. These aren't pictures of famous places so much as pictures of particular mornings and evenings I happened to be standing in.
The photographs here are the ones I'm most proud of, gathered into three rough categories. Some of them also appear, transformed into graphic art, on my companion site at primalgaze.com.
Prints and electronic images are available — if anything here speaks to you, get in touch using the form below.
— David Harrison
With a silverback in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda, 2022.