Brent Stirton

2025 should have been a year of celebration for Virunga National Park, the oldest on the African continent. Thanks to the dedication of the rangers who protect it, the park’s gorilla population has been preserved and the largest herd of elephants recorded in the last 50 years has returned. But because it borders an area that has been at war for three decades, the park is permanently under siege from those who covet its natural resources: terrorist groups, local militias and rebels backed by neighboring Rwanda. For 15 years, Brent Stirton has been a witness to this war that does not speak its name. For the park’s 100th anniversary, he will be showing all of his work from this period.