Russian photographer Africa

This year's sudden epidemic has caught all mankind off guard and triggered us to rethink the relationship between people and wildlife. Humans and other animals should live in harmony, but this balanced killing, injury and destruction brought this epidemic. Is this a warning from nature?

Tippy Gray's childhood experience may give us some inspiration. Before she was ten years old, she and her parents spent a different childhood in Namibia, Africa, which was also a realistic version of Beauty and the Beast. She makes friends with elephants and plays the real version of the elephant slide; Dare to play with cheetahs and take a nap together; Sometimes they dance with ostriches Let's take a look at her story.

Tippy was born in Namibia, Africa on 1990. Tippy's parents are photographers, who specialize in shooting wild animals in Africa. Before Tippy, Tippy's parents lived in the Kalahadi Desert for nine years and filmed there for nine years. After they had Tippi, they took Tippi around Africa to see wild animals and feel the unique environment different from the city. So little Tippy's world is all kinds of wild animals and customs of African countries, not dolls and Harry Potter.

Tippy's mother said that at that time, their family did not have a fixed residence in Africa, and they all set up wild tents. It may be because of nature, or it may be because of the open environment. Tippy is a girl who likes freedom and is bold. She is not afraid of wild animals at all. She will also try to communicate with wild animals in her own way, whether it is eye contact or spiritual communication. Maybe her little trick worked. She made friends with an elephant n times older than her and had a good time.

After ten years old, Tippy grew up and needed to return to her original life and receive traditional education, so she returned to Paris, a big city, to live and study with everyone. Tippy, who has returned to Paris, seems out of place in this society. After all, her ten-year living habits are very primitive. Suddenly, it took her a long time to adapt to the urban culture. She is used to barefoot. She doesn't know Harry Potter which is popular all over the world, but she knows how to get along with animals and how to deal with their attacks. Even after returning to Paris, the ten years spent with wild animals in Africa still made her feel very moved and unforgettable. So she decided to write a book, My Wild Animal Friends, to record the process of playing with her animal friends such as elephants, cheetahs and ostriches, as well as her close relationship as a family member and their touching stories. Perhaps it is because you can't see this in the city, just like the parallel world. What is even more touching is that this child shows us how "man and nature" live in harmony, without hostility, aggression, harm or killing. Because of this book, Tippy became a popular figure in Paris at that time and gained his own fame.

Maybe it's because people living in cities can't get in touch with other real wild animals except zoos. Maybe it's because some people are jealous of Tippy's experience and fame. Some people suspect that the animals described in this book are not wild, and all the descriptions in it are out of thin air and false. No matter what people say, how to analyze this book is fabricated, negative photos will not lie, Tippy's feelings will not lie, Tippy's love for animals will not lie.

When she was at Tippi University, she chose the film major of University of Paris IV. The reason for choosing this major should also be inseparable from this experience. Tippy lamented from time to time that he had nothing. Sometimes she thinks she may never talk to animals again. Perhaps, this is also a kind of sadness of becoming an adult in society.