She Waits
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She Waits
The rain had been falling for some time. We found her settled deep into the undergrowth, arms folded, rain moving through her fur in slow rivers. She was not distressed by it. She was simply waiting, with a patience so complete it had become indistinguishable from stillness itself. In the highlands of Rwanda, mountain gorillas will often pause their feeding in heavy rain, hunkering down into the vegetation until it passes. The forest asks nothing of them in these moments. And so they simply remain.
What I was not prepared for was the gaze.
She looked at me the way you are looked at when someone has decided you are not a threat but has not yet decided what you are. Not curiosity, exactly. Not indifference. Something more considered than either, a long, level appraisal that lasted several seconds and felt considerably longer.
I chose black and white because this image was never about the forest, or the rain, or Rwanda. It was always about that face. And some faces ask to be seen without the distraction of color.
Christina Trester
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...
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