Presentation
Baptistin LEGEAY
France
https://www.instagram.com/baptl.photo/
Photographs
Baptistin LEGEAY, born in 1999, wildlife researcher
I am 26 years old and I have always wanted to learn about the species around me and especially observe them. For my 18th birthday, I got my first camera. This drove me to go and walk in the forest just behind my house, near Pont-à-Mousson, and to make my first pictures. It was, when I first met a herd of wild boars, then unaware of my presence behind my camouflage net, that the passion was born: the feeling felt when witnessing moments of life of wild species is indescribable. Since then, I have been working as a wildlife biologist, and my free time is dedicated to prospecting, as well as watching, the intimate life of different species.
Exposition
Despite the very agricultural and urban aspect of the Alsace plain, one of its inhabitants immediately triggered my attention: the European Hamster “Cricetus cricetus”, a species that can only be found in Alsace in our country.
It ‘s attracting a lot of attention : Pest for some and symbol of the Alsatian fauna for others, but in the end, few people have already met it. After spending several springs, face down in a wheat field to try to observe it, I wanted to highlight this small animal. It is one of the most endangered mammals in France and yet it is very little known. All the photos of the exhibition were taken in a natural environment, with wild individuals, less than 20 minutes from Strasbourg.
