Nicki Cooley

Christina Trester discovered photography long before she understood its power. A quiet obsession that began at thirteen, it would eventually reshape the entire course of her life.

After a decade in corporate America, a transformative journey to Kenya became the turning point. A confrontation with the wild that she could not walk away from. In 2022, she left behind the predictable and stepped fully into the unknown.

What followed has taken her across all seven continents, into the mountains of Rwanda and the dust of the Lower Zambezi, through the early mornings of Ranthambore and the golden hours of the Serengeti. Her lens seeks not merely to document the natural world, but to reveal something of its interior life: the weight of a gaze, the geometry of a creature in motion, the silence that precedes something extraordinary. The moment the light does something in a forest that no description can quite hold.

The resulting photographs are meditative and monumental in equal measure. Conceived as fine art prints, they are made to be lived with, images that reward patience, that change with the light, and that ask something of the viewer in return.