Canon Ambassador and wildlife photographer Chris Fallows took his world-famous 'Air Jaws' image on a Canon EOS-1V. "I still have that camera in a safe at home. Every time I open the safe, I think of that moment when the camera and I worked so well together," he says. The image won STARTnet's 2020 Global Eye Award, a contemporary art prize that Chris believes is an important step forward in terms of getting wildlife photography recognised as an art form. Taken on a Canon EOS-1V (now succeeded by the Canon EOS-1D X Mark III) with a Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L USM lens at 160mm, 1/1250 and f/5.6. © Chris Fallows
When Canon Ambassador and renowned wildlife photographer Chris Fallows fired the shutter on his camera over two decades ago, he had no idea the image he had just shot would go on to become world famous.
His iconic picture of a great white shark breaching at South Africa's Seal Island was featured on the front pages of some of the biggest publications across the globe, catapulting Chris into the spotlight.
"I'd never seen anything like that before," he explains. "We knew we'd stumbled on something incredible. When the photo got out, it was a media sensation all around the world."