| Publication OverviewBob Campbell was born in England in October 1930 and grew up in Kenya. After a varied early career that included working for the Kenya Agricultural Department, serving as an officer in the King's African Rifles during the Mau Mau rebellion from 1953 to 1955, and running the Jaguar car franchise for East Africa, in 1963 Bob began a new career in photography. In 1964, he took on an assignment with the National Geographic Society to cover Richard Leakey's first sponsored palaeontological expedition and in 1968, was sent to Dian Fossey's mountain camp in the Virunga Mountains of Rwanda, after her recently assigned photographer, Alan Root, was bitten by a snake. Bob spent nearly four years on the assignment, becoming closely involved with Dian and her work, and playing an important role in the gradual habituation of the gorillas. In 1973 he joined Anglia Television, shooting wildlife documentaries and he then joined Warner Bros/Universal Studios for the filming of Gorillas In The Mist. His book about his experiences with the gorillas, The Taming of The Gorillas was published in 2000. |
