FASCINATING AFRICA

612 Ocean Street,Santa Cruz CA 95060

01 June, 2023

Description

Shem Compion has been photographing for over 23 years. His adventurous life has led him up numerous volcanos, he’s lived in a Landrover for 7 months and built specialised photographic hides, all in pursuit of images of relevance. He shares his passion and experiences with his guests, whom he guides to remote corners of Africa via C4 Photo Safaris. His images have been recognised and published globally and he co-produced an acclaimed documentary, “Zero to Zero”. To date, he has published 7 books. A native of Africa, Shem is a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society. For more about Shem and his work, visit his websight shemimages.com Mark Overgaard is a retired technology executive who was born in Thailand of missionary parents, spoke Thai before English, and attended fifteen schools in five countries before college. After those peripatetic early years, Mark settled in California for his professional career. With retirement, he has resumed traveling the world, aiming to experience and record cultural and natural beauty, finding reverence within and beyond, envisioning our shared humanity and fragile natural world. For more about Mark and his work, visit his website markovergaard.art which has an introduction to his 2nd generation Eloquent Suri project markovergaard.art/2nd-generation-project including the short film coproduced by Mark and Shem.