Carl Georg Schillings was an innovative photographer who took some of the earliest photographs of African animals 

Beginning in 1896, Schillings began going on safaris in the then-German colony in the African Great Lakes region known as German East Africa. He experimented with flashlight photographs and some of the earliest telephoto lenses. His 1906 title "With Flashlight and Rifle" included photographs of animals from the region and sparked widespread interest in the German colony. In 1907, "In Wildest Africa" was published, containing over 300 photographs from Schillings' negatives. Schillings states in the preface that he hopes that the work will "win over my readers to the one underlying idea — the idea upon which I harp so often — of the importance of taking active steps to prevent the complete extermination of wild life.

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