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Nana Grosse-Woodley, qualified photographer by trade, has lived with her husband, Daniel Woodley, in different parts of the Tsavo area for the past 12 years.

Nana was born in Germany, but grew up in Kenya, Nairobi, where she went to the German School. After her A-levels she went back to Germany to study photography and with diploma in hand returned to Kenya, Nana’s home by choice. She initially worked as the in-house photographer for an advertising agency in Nairobi, but soon moved to Tsavo East National Park after meeting her future husband.

After a couple of years in the Southern, more developed part of Tsavo East, Nana and Daniel moved into the Northern Area, which was still closed to the public and apart from a skeleton road network totally undeveloped, the closest tarmac road over one hundred km away. The first two years here were spent in a tented camp whilst the old sub headquarters of the park were rehabilitated and rebuilt.

Amongst other animal orphans Nana raised and successfully rehabilitated a male leopard cub into the wild, a project that took three years of devoted and undivided attention and dedication and which is now being summarized and compiled into a coffee table book.

Now Nana lives with her husband and their 5 year old daughter in Tsavo West, of which Daniel is the Senior Warden for Kenya Wildlife Service.