Troy Inman is a South African based photographer with a sharp curiosity for the world. His work concentrates on man’s relationship with the environment and has been featured worldwide in books, magazines, exhibitions, NGO publications and commercial advertising material.

The human was designed to walk, run or stop. it wasn’t built for coasting’ – Cullen Hightower

Coasting along has never been on Troy’s mind. He was born in 1971, qualified as a chartered accountant in his early twenties and implemented financial systems for investment banks in South Africa and London. A new life of endless expeditions began 11 years ago when he restored a series 3 Land Rover and drove 24 000 kms across Africa. A trip that planted the seed to ‘go beyond’ and prompted further adventures, such as cycling across Tibet and Madagascar, or hiking the world’s largest and most remote jungles and mountain ranges – always watching the creatures and people of these wild areas and waiting for those moments of purity which characterise his work. His full-time photographic career began in 2002 when, with funding from a conservation organization, he spent a year in the rainforests of Gabon in Central Africa, tracking and photographing the Western Lowland Gorillas of the Lope National Park. There, he developed an extensive knowledge of Central Africa’s wildlife; its people and their traditional customs, as well as the pressures on this vulnerable area.

Troy has a firm conviction to create images that stop people for a moment, revealing the beauty in a diversity of cultures and the wonder in the balance of natural ecosystems. His talent in capturing intimate and reflective views of daily life in all corners of the world gives him the opportunity to profoundly affect the viewer’s behaviour.