Amazing images from India’s Elephants

Photojournalist Annette Bonnier travelled throughout India documenting the lives of wild and domesticated Indian elephants.

This thought-provoking collection of 215 photos contrasts animals in their natural habitat, including a male bathing serenely in the Nugu River, with servitude under keepers at villages, temples, circuses, logging camps and tourist destinations.

However, she writes: “Both [animals and keepers] were shackled to poverty and a lifetime of indenture, yet a spiritual bond existed between them.”

Find out more about India’s Elephants by Annette Bonnier. 

Annette will be speaking about her passion for India and elephants, and showing some of her photographs, at Waterstone’s Piccadily, London, at 6pm on 5 June. Find out more.