einhard Kunkel’s incredible photography details

the wondrous aspects of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.  A past resident of the reserve, Kunkel looked down into the crater in 1963. Ten years later he returned to live there to work on the Rhino Project. 


A Berliner, he studied economics at Saarbrüeken. A German champion in his teens his swimming career later led to his first African safari. 


The safari saw the end of the economist and the beginning of the wildlife photographer, filmmaker and writer. He is the author of African Elephants (1998), and his photographs and articles have appeared in many magazines, including: National Geographic, Life, Stern, Geo, Paris-Match, Terre Sauvage, BBC Wildlife Magazine and the Sunday Times magazine.

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Medium: photography on paper Each work is original size: various

Reinhard Kunkel

“Why do elephants have such a hold on our imaginations? It is not only their size but the strange feeling that one is seeing two creatures in one: the great body and head, and the serpentine trunk that seems to have a life of its own.”

Wildebeests in Flight, Grass House
A Sunny Rick and Lion Pride, Safari House
Afternoon Colors on View, Oldupai House
Ngorongoro House Rhino herd in the crater floor, the crater rim and long shadows of the afternoon light marching up the horizon.
Farmhouse Cheetah in motion. 19xx, photograph on paper.
Mokadabishu House Grazing Giraffe 19xx, photograph on canvas.