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Dubai International Airport Exhibition

The 11th Hour

In my short time on this planet, my lens has borne witness to extraordinary change. My subjects are all iconic species or individuals, the greatest of our planet’s living creatures, and as my appreciation of both nature’s virtues and our planets visage has matured, so has the reality of the pressures they face.

The 11th Hour Exhibition, hosted by Dubai International Airport, is my artistic declaration to the two choices we as fellow animals on this planet can make right now.

One choice is of ultimate loss, including our own kind, based on ignorance, greed and inaction. The other is of hope founded on corrective course and enlightenment.

It is for each and every one of us to decide how the hours of the clock will run down …

3 o'clock - The Final Act

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THE FINAL ACT

But suddenly between 2012-2014 we noticed a decline in their numbers, slow at first but then rapid. In 2018 I took this photograph, The Final Act, it was to be the last time the famous great whites of Seal Island would ever fly.
Overfishing, archaic shark nets, finning and habitat change had wiped out in 22 years what had taken 50 million years to create.

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9 o'clock - Ocean Wanderer

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OCEAN WANDERER

At the furthest reaches of our planet I have lay under the 12ft wingspan of our planet’s greatest nomads, the A380’s of the wild, the Magnificent Wandering Albatross who circumnavigates our planet in under a month. Sadly however, they have not learnt to recognize a baited hook and 15 out of the 22 species are threatened with extinction.

But all is not yet lost, magnificence, beauty and wonder still hang on … just.

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10 o'clock - Leviathan

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LEVIATHAN

I have recently felt the salty kiss of giants, as their moist breath caresses my skin as around me, one hundred 60ft long humpback whales exhale, before raising their flukes and sinking down into the depths from which they came. The same inky depths we nearly wiped them out from just a century before but now due to protection they once again flourish.

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Dubai International Airport Exhibition

Moments in Time

By Chris Fallows

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Moments in Time

Moments in time reflects an instant in my career that eclipses all others.
It is where upon the fall of a shutter, the hands of time stood still, and the iconic wild subjects and places I was privileged to photograph, basked in all their glory for both posterity and contemplation.

2 o'clock - The Pearl

A Reflection of Greatness

The Serengeti, Tanzania 2018

I was so privileged to spend many moments with Bob Junior, possibly the most famous wild lion in all of Africa. For over a decade he held sway over prime territory, defending it in tooth and claw. As with all great leaders, time, however, never stands still, and in this capture, he contemplatively gazes out, wondering from whence the next challenge shall come.

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6 o'clock - Achilles Horn

AFTER THE FALL, THE RISE

Dassen Island, South Africa 2021

In the early 1990’s, when I first started working off the South African Coast, it was rare to see a humpback whale. The day I took this photograph in 2021, I saw well over two hundred.
The fact that whales, the largest mammals to have ever lived, can rise from the ashes of near extinction when given a chance, is surely hope that where there is will, the same can be achieved for other species.

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8 o'clock - The Inquisition

A CLIMATE FOR CHANGE

Namiri Plains, The Serengeti, Tanzania 2022.

So much is at stake for the King to ponder. If the rains cease to fall, the grass will die, the great migration will vanish, and the call of an icon will no longer resonate across a continent.
God bless the rains, and those in politics and industry that hold the likelihood of their future in their hands, down in Africa.

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Dubai International Airport Exhibition

The 11th Hour Exhibition

By Chris Fallows

Dubai International Airport Exhibition

Moments in Time

By Chris Fallows

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