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Deborah Calmeyer

Deborah Calmeyer

Jul 17, 2026

0:37
It came about when Aline Pokel, one of a great photographer that we've been working with for many, many projects, came with, with that idea and came with, with you on board as well.
0:49
When I thought about this and I thought, "If I just had 12 days to see the very best I could in Sub-Saharan Africa, where would that be?" And that was Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Okavango Delta, the Great Migration in Kenya, and the gorillas in Rwanda.
1:07
And I thought, "You know, what does one call that?" And I was like, "That's the greatest safari on Earth." The word safari means to journey in Swahili, and so that is what you're doing.
1:20
You're going on a journey.
1:22
It can be a very intense inner journey triggered by the outer landscape on your journey.
1:28
That is safari.
1:30
I think it's beautiful how Assouline has sort of transcended the experience to such a cultural, artistic level.
2:17
There's a lot of, uh, emotion in each of these pictures because as you mentioned earlier, there's a lot of people.

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