C. G. (Carl Georg) Schillings

Born in 1865, Carl Georg Schillings was a German photographer, explorer, and writer best known for his work in East Africa. He became widely known for photographing wild animals at a time when that was technically difficult and unusual, and he was especially admired for his use of nighttime and flash photography.

His travel and wildlife books introduced many readers to African landscapes and animals through both vivid writing and striking images. Although he was also a big-game hunter, he is remembered as an early voice for wildlife protection, and his work reflects a period when ideas about exploration, science, hunting, and conservation were all closely intertwined.

Schillings died in 1921. Today he is chiefly remembered as an important early wildlife photographer whose pictures and books helped shape how European audiences imagined African wildlife in the early 1900s.