When Max Quinn joined the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation at 17, he threaded his camera with 16mm black-and-white film. PHOTO: SUPPLIED : Wild at heart
When Max Quinn joined the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation at 17, he threaded his camera with 16mm black-and-white film. PHOTO: SUPPLIED : Wild at heart
Max Quinn in Robert Falcon Scott’s hut on Ross Island in Antarctica. PHOTO: SUPPLIED : Wild at heart
Max Quinn in Robert Falcon Scott’s hut on Ross Island in Antarctica. PHOTO: SUPPLIED : Wild at heart
Max Quinn in the middle of an Antarctic winter. Temperatures dropped as low as minus 50degC, giving him mild frostbite and jamming a camera in the five seconds it was open to the air as he changed a tape. PHOTO: DON ANDERSON : Wild at heart
Max Quinn in the middle of an Antarctic winter. Temperatures dropped as low as minus 50degC, giving him mild frostbite and jamming a camera in the five seconds it was open to the air as he changed a tape. PHOTO: DON ANDERSON : Wild at heart
Quinn films from a hide in Arizona. Last year he used Canon’s new 50-1000mm lens to film in Tibet but usually uses a Canon 100mm-400mm lens with extenders that allow him to film animals close-up from a distance. PHOTO: SUPPLIED : Wild at heart
Quinn films from a hide in Arizona. Last year he used Canon’s new 50-1000mm lens to film in Tibet but usually uses a Canon 100mm-400mm lens with extenders that allow him to film animals close-up from a distance. PHOTO: SUPPLIED : Wild at heart
Wild at heart
Max Quinn has spent half a century telling stories, many of them gathered at the ends of the earth, Kim Dungey reports. The polar bear paces back...