“Like an archaeologist, Bonn has the urge to seek out and preserve whatever amounts to a legacy of the past in East Africa. The difference is that he takes pictures, and that the past he seeks to record is quite a recent one.” Wrote Jon Lee Anderson, the New Yorker magazine writer and author, about “Mosquito Coast, travels from Maputo to Mogadishu” to describe one of the artist’s latest book. Guillaume Bonn is a lens-based artist born in Madagascar who grew up in Djibouti and Kenya, he studied Economics, International politics and Photography. “I think my influences as a kid goes back to all these amazing books my dad kept buying and bringing back home. They were all about adventures in remote corners of our planet and most of them had photographs taken by explorers, anthropologists and adventurers. One of them, written by Wilfred Thesiger, the last great explorer of the 20 th  century who used photography to document his journeys and discoveries. “ His photographs with others like him have changed the way we look and understand the world. All these books are what started my sense of curiosity and my wanting to use photography to travel to remote and far places”. Unlike Thesiger, Bonn did not travel to explore places no one had been before him, he was fascinated by what remained of the old world. “ It has been Guillaume’s destiny to document the demise of the old ways and natural environment of the continent that gave him birth. But the human upheaval he spends his life witnessing and recording is also his own ” writes Jon Lee Anderson. The best writers in my opinion are the ones who will write in the most visual way, triggering your imagination and your emotions into real smells, their words capable of reaching the depth of your inner self, I want my photographs to do the same in reverse, I want them to be the most literary possible where you can also understand that the subject is always more complex than what you see in the picture. Bonn was a Vanity Fair magazine contributor from 2002 to 2017 and was on the board of the American wildlife Organization ANAW (Africa Network for Animal Welfare) from 2013 to 2016.