Brent Stirton
South Africa
Brent is a Senior Correspondent for Getty Images. He does most of his work for National Geographic Magazine, focusing on the intersection of humans and the environment.
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In Vietnam, a client watches as a specialist prepares a tonic.
She has breast cancer and has been told that drinking rhino horn could cure her. Brent went undercover to photograph this phenomenon finding that the hope of health outweighs any concerns over the treatment of rhinos. ‘Which of us wouldn’t do whatever we could if our own child was sick?’ he asks.
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- Fuji FinePix X100
- 35mm f2 lens
- 1/210 sec at f4
- Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam
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