Wildlife photography: Where it all started
I discovered photography when I was eight years old, during a family safari in Kenya. With my father’s little digital camera in hand, I tried to capture the magic of the wild animals I was seeing for the very first time. I didn’t know it then, but a small spark had just been lit.
Back in Belgium, life moved on and photography faded into the background, but my love for nature never left me. I went on to study bioengineering, followed by a degree in animal care, driven by the desire to understand and stay close to the living world.
A turning point
During my final-year internship, I spent several months in a wildlife sanctuary in South Africa. There, the spark was reignited. The safaris in Kruger National Park reconnected me with the wildlife that had left such a mark on me as a child, and I naturally found my way back to photography.
That stay also opened my eyes to the urgent reality of conservation: shrinking habitats, human-wildlife conflict, illegal trafficking, poaching, climate change… so many threats weighing on the survival of countless species.
Since then, I have returned several times to southern Africa (South Africa and Malawi) to join wildlife volunteer missions and contribute, in my own small way, to the protection of the natural world.
Conservation AWARENESS
TRANSMISSION
AUTHENTICITY
ETHICAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Building the project
Aurel’in the Wild is born from a desire to bring together two things that matter deeply to me: celebrating the beauty of the wild and raising awareness of the challenges it faces.
Through my images and stories, I hope to inform and to share the emotions I feel when I’m immersed in the natural world. Because change always begins with awareness.
Sometimes tiny, but essential.
