Edge of Light was made from a sunken hide at Lentorre, in the Shompole conservancy of southern Kenya, where the ground-level perspective places the photographer almost at the waterline — eye to eye with whatever chooses to drink after dark.

The Long Dry was made in the late afternoon on the open grasslands of East Africa, in a season when the land had surrendered most of its colour to the sun. Rendered in black and white, the image strips the savannah to its essentials — the vertical form of the giraffe against the long horizontal of the plain, a study in line, patience, and scale.

Landfall was made over Lake Magadi, a soda lake in the southern reaches of Kenya's Rift Valley, where the water is so alkaline and the mineral crust so thick that the surface reads, at first glance, as something else entirely — a pale shore, a stretch of bleached sand, the edge of a sea that isn't there.