UNDERSTORY Ossian Reyes

Expeditions 2027 · Booking now

Six photographers.
No exceptions.

These are working field trips, not photo holidays. We rise before the light, sit in hides for eleven hours, walk downwind for kilometres and come home with a handful of frames we’ll remember for decades. Every expedition runs under the same ethical-fieldcraft pledge as my commissioned work: never bait, never disturb, no off-road driving, no crowding animals for a shot.

Max 6 photographers per departure

Recce-run routes, small-group only

Daily edit sessions with Ossian

Svalbard Polar Bear Expedition

78°N 15°E

Hours in the hide on recce: 0 · Difficulty: Extreme

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Svalbard Polar Bear Expedition

March 2027 · 9 days · Max 6 photographers · from £6,900

Nine days on the fast ice aboard a small expedition vessel, working the Storfjorden edge where bears hunt seal breathing holes. Days are long, temperatures run to −30°C, and every frame is earned.

Itinerary

  • Days 1–2 · Longyearbyen: cold-weather craft, sea-ice safety, bear-aware field protocol
  • Days 3–7 · Storfjorden ice edge: zodiac shoots at first light, hide work on the floe
  • Days 8–9 · Kongsfjorden: arctic fox dens, edit sessions, decompression dinner

Target species

Polar bear · Arctic fox · Glaucous gull

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Borneo Canopy: Hornbills of Danum Valley

5°N 117°E

Hours in the hide on recce: 0 · Difficulty: Demanding

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Borneo Canopy: Hornbills of Danum Valley

June 2027 · 12 days · Max 6 photographers · from £5,400

Twelve days in primary rainforest, including four mornings on the 34-metre canopy platform where my hornbill frame was made. We finish on the Kinabatangan for the dusk elephant crossings.

Itinerary

  • Days 1–2 · Kota Kinabalu to Danum Valley: jungle craft, leech protocol, canopy briefing
  • Days 3–7 · Danum Valley: canopy platform rotations, fig-tree vigils, night walks
  • Days 8–12 · Kinabatangan River: river-hide sessions, pygmy elephant crossings at dusk

Target species

Rhinoceros hornbill · Bornean gibbon · Pygmy elephant

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Serengeti: Following the Migration

2°S 34°E

Hours in the hide on recce: 0 · Difficulty: Moderate

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Serengeti: Following the Migration

October 2027 · 10 days · Max 6 photographers · from £7,200

Ten days moving with the short-grass herds between Seronera and Ndutu, with ground-hide mornings on the resident cheetahs and long evenings on the dust-light plains. Two vehicles, six photographers — never more.

Itinerary

  • Days 1–2 · Arusha to Seronera: light-and-dust workshops, predator tracking with a Maasai tracker
  • Days 3–7 · Seronera valley: ground hides at first light, cheetah territory sessions
  • Days 8–10 · Ndutu Plains: migration columns, elephant herds, wide compositions at golden hour

Target species

Cheetah · Wildebeest · African elephant

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Patagonia Puma Winter

51°S 73°W

Hours in the hide on recce: 0 · Difficulty: Demanding

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Patagonia Puma Winter

July 2027 · 11 days · Max 6 photographers · from £6,400

Eleven days in Torres del Paine in deep winter, tracking pumas on foot with a licensed tracker across the Laguna Azul territory. Wind, snow and long waits — and the best puma light on earth.

Itinerary

  • Days 1–2 · Puerto Natales: winter fieldcraft, tracking fundamentals, kit check
  • Days 3–9 · Laguna Azul territory: dawn-to-dusk puma tracking, storm-light sessions
  • Days 10–11 · Steppe and condor cliffs: wide landscape work, final edit session

Target species

Puma · Guanaco · Andean condor

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Places are allocated in order of enquiry

Request a place,
2027 departures.

Tell me which expedition and a little about your field experience. I reply personally within three working days — sooner if I’m back in signal. A 20% deposit holds your place; the balance is due 90 days before departure.

Deposit: 20% · Balance: 90 days pre-departure

Full refund up to 120 days before departure

Solo travellers welcome — no single supplement