More Beautiful Than You: The Wildlife Photography of Chris Packham

Combining formal ambition with an urgent contemporary message, the images in More Beautiful Than You are the result of careful premeditation, unerring attention to detail and rigorous visual editing. The result is an exhibition by turns beautiful, unsettling and uplifting, suffused with an ethical perspective that is impossible to ignore. 

Breaking the familiar mould of the wildlife photographer as nature’s humble witness, Chris Packham does not simply watch and wait – he anticipates, researching his subjects and interacting with their environment in order to achieve compositions that had previously only existed in his mind. This shift from observation to orchestration is central to the unique, provocative power of Packham’s work.

From the ebony buffalo to the ghost-white spider, the animals in this exhibition transcend anthropocentric conceptions of beauty. Grounded or in flight, mud-caked or snow-flecked, dead or alive – they are More Beautiful Than You.