38 Quotes by Nigel Dennis

Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.

These got me into a good UK stock agency - I am still with this same agency now, and they continue to sell the odd badger image taken 19 years ago!

I carry a notebook full of sketches of pictures I want to take – they are really scruffy sketches, but at least I am going out there with a clear objective.

I hope to goodness I would not still be working in the corporate world – the money is OK but it is no life at all.

For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend’s garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!

My first serious project was photographing badgers – very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.

For sure, all over Poland, kids had my picture of a lemur on their bedroom wall – but the chances are they may never get to see a real lemur in Madagascar. I thought this was great and it really meant a lot to me.

The Kalahari is brilliant – and easy to visit.

Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library – all this keeps me quite busy!