The Kalahari trip for Wilderness has been one of the most rewarding shoots I’ve worked on in recent years.
Filming with the San in Namibia was an incredible experience. The San are the oldest inhabitants of Africa stretching back over 20,000 years and their level of connection with their environment is nothing short of breathtaking. The knowledge passed down through the generations is a treasure trove, that a lot of other civilisations have simply forgotten, the very fact they had discovered a grub that lives only under a certain type of shrub, and that this grub could be used as a poison, strong enough to take a Wilderbeest down was breathtaking.
They take only what they needed and waste nothing from the scant resources available to them, which should be a lesson to us all.
