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Jasper Doest's Image
At the market, a buyer shows Jasper a handful of cash topped with a bush cricket to demonstrate that ‘nsenene is big business in Uganda’.
The harvest and sale of these insects has become an important source of income for some Ugandans in recent decades. However, as a growing number of trappers pursue the same unpredictable nsenene swarms, profits have become less certain.
Behind the lens
Jasper Doest
The Netherlands
Jasper is a photographer who creates stories that explore the relationship between humans and nature. He’s a contributing photographer for National Geographic Magazine, a Senior Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers and a WWF Netherlands Ambassador.
Image details
- Canon EOS R
- 24–105mm f4 lens
- 1/160 sec at f11 (+0.7 e/v) • ISO 2500
- Katwe Market, Kampala, Uganda
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