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Turgay Uzer

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Nature, Wildlife

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United States of America

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I started in film photography quite soon after my birth in 1952 in Turkey. After graduating from Harvard I taught physics at Atlanta's Georgia Institute of Technology for 35 years. During my working life I developed an interest in wildlife photography and this interest continues today. My favorite destinations are Zambia's South Luangwa National Park, Botswana's Okavango Delta, and Brazil's Pantanal. My favorite subjects are big cats and wild dogs. I favor animal-in-habitat images as well as close-up portraits with eye contact - not an easy task since eye contact with wild animals tends to be fleeting. I started photographing wildlife simply to keep souvenirs of the animals I love. Little did I relize that in the process I'd be documenting a vanishing world -- what's here today may well be gone tomorrow. These days I am trying to keep up with the rapid destruction of wild places and things. It is not easy!

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