Zebra Portrait

About Wolf Ademeit

ABOUT THE WORK Animals In front of Wolf Ademeit’s lens, a one-ton rhino becomes a wise philosopher, a ferocious lion plays kitty-cat, and a giraffe poses with a skilled crane of the neck. No animal in the world likes to work as a model, not even with photographers as talented as Wolf Ademeit. For this reason, Ademeit takes his sensational photographs in zoos. Ademeit does not have any special privileges at the zoo. He stands outside the enclosures, and the animals remain inside them. He explains that his impressive portraits require “Luck, endurance, and concentration – in exactly that order.” His bold, black-and-white photographs prove that he definitely knows how to take… Read more