keep the wild inside

a correspondence about wilderness and art

Collaborators Who Travel Wild

In Nepal in a forest on the foothills of the Himalayas I spotted a common langur -- a tall, white-furred monkey -- staring at me from behind foliage. Later that day, I watched two otters play in a stream as I dangled my blistered feet in the chilly river falling from the Annapurna Himal. These were my first professional encounters with wildlife.

Much of my adolescence was spent catching -- or killing -- fish, snakes, turtles, spiders, lizards or birds, and I lived every night in a tent for almost a year when I was 11, as I criss-crossed the Middle East and southern Europe with my father on the run from the CIA. That I would eventually travel to wild lands was not a far-fetched thought, but with whom would I visit these places?

The photographers or videographers below contributed to Traveling Wild or Bad TV by traveling with me to out of the way destinations, sometimes on a whim, to capture an image or live an experience that had something to do with the world's most beautiful religion, wilderness.

See a photo by Stephen F. Correl: Lemur in Madagascar, or Seanie with Rhino 

See a photo by J. Danielle Hubbard: Pygmy Dancers in Uganda.

Mikey Cormier, video savant

Ananda Shields, Uganda

Helmuth Humphrey

J. Danielle Hubbard, Uganda & Asia

Stephen F. Correl

Aisha Casas, gossamer american

Eddie Becker, Out of Far Rockaway