Milan Radisics
Photo story of a young vixen living on the border of two habitats with rarely seen, stealthy behavior.
Quarantined with a fox
At the time of lockdown both sides were forced to adjust.
Man to the wilds of the forest, and animals to the human environment.
For 8 months, nearly every night I spent sitting at the window of my cottage house in the middle of the forest, and I observed the life of the foxes. One of them was braver. The vixen would appear after dusk, circle it for an hour and a half, and appear in the yard several times. I took the exposure remotely to capture interesting, covert, never-before-seen behavior. We built a distant, but subtle relationship, something hard to describe, and I named her Roxy. She always surprised me, showing new sides of her personality and quick adaptation to the changes. Adjusting to the presence of a wild animal, I learned plenty about foxes and also about myself and humans in general. Lots of things that will hopefully change people's view that the fox is not a pest.
In the evenings I set the lights in advance, like in a studio, and waited in the darkened room for my heroine to enter the scene. Working with such an appealing and unpredictable animal I had to solve many technical, theoretical, and physical challenges, and it was a wonderful opportunity to develop skills and experiment with gadgets.
Photo-story is category WINNER on Hungarian Press Photo 2022
Photo-story is FINALIST on Sony World Photography Awards 2022
by
Milan Radisics
www.milan.hu