Bob Campbell

Bob Campbell is a photographer and cinematographer who has documented various landmark African projects over the last half century. After covering paleontologist Richard Leakey's African expeditions throughout the 1960s, he began a long-term involvement with Dian Fossey's Gorilla Research Project and later joined forces with Universal Studios to film the feature movie "Gorillas in the Mist." In 2000, he published a book on this experience titled "The Taming of the Gorillas" (Minerva Press Ltd)....See more

Bob Campbell is a photographer and cinematographer who has documented various landmark African projects over the last half century. After covering paleontologist Richard Leakey's African expeditions throughout the 1960s, he began a long-term involvement with Dian Fossey's Gorilla Research Project and later joined forces with Universal Studios to film the feature movie "Gorillas in the Mist." In 2000, he published a book on this experience titled "The Taming of the Gorillas" (Minerva Press Ltd). He has contributed photographs of orchids to Joyce Stewart's previous books including "Orchids of Tropical Africa" (W.H. Allen 1970) and "The Orchids of Kenya" (Timber Press 1996). See less