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RAW in FOCUS is an independent wildlife and nature photography magazine currently under development.

The work presented here draws on years of field experience, but RAW in FOCUS operates as a separate editorial entity and does not offer travel services. This site is being rebuilt as a dedicated photography magazine to preserve, contextualize, and expand that body of work in a purely editorial format.

Travel experiences previously associated with Inertia Network (which closed at the end of 2024) now exist independently through:

One With Whales (whale swimming expeditions)

OneXpeditions (off-the-beaten-path wildlife expeditions)

Safar Expeditions (trips to unusual and remote destinations)

FEATURE / HUMANS + ANIMALS

From a dusty market on the outskirts of Khartoum, hundreds of thousands of animals are moved each year across desert routes to Egypt and the Gulf, underpinning Sudan’s pastoral economy despite conflict and drought.

Photography / Matt Reichel

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Docuphoto Series

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A Rail Journey: North Korea to Russia By Train
A Rail Journey: North Korea to Russia By Train

Follow along on a 68-hour rail journey from the North Korean capital of Pyongyang to Vladivostok in the Russian Far East.

A Look at Life Inside North Korea
A Look at Life Inside North Korea

Photos from daily life in North Korea captured over eleven years of working in the country.

A Photographic Journey Through Southern Yemen
A Photographic Journey Through Southern Yemen

THROUGH THE LENS WITH / PIER NIRANDARA

Splendid Chaos: The South African Sardine Run

Thai-American photojournalist Pier Nirandara has spent three years documenting the Sardine Run off the Wild Coast, one of the most action-packed predation events on the planet, as spawning sardines form into baitballs, attracting sharks, cetaceans, and birds.

Photography / Pier Nirandara

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Through The Lens Series

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Wildlife Through the Lens with Karim Iliya
Wildlife Through the Lens with Karim Iliya

Karim Iliya’s awe-inspiring work aims to encourage people to care about the planet, our resources, and the animals that live in it.

Polar Regions Through the Lens with Jenny Wong
Polar Regions Through the Lens with Jenny Wong

Canadian Photographer Jenny Wong’s mission is to document wildlife and the environment throughout our planet’s most sparsely populated regions, especially in the Arctic.

Conflict Camera: Through the Lens with Giles Clarke
Conflict Camera: Through the Lens with Giles Clarke

Explore the work of Photojournalist Giles Clarke who has spent his life documenting humanitarian issues and crises on behalf of the United Nations.

Congo’s Last Forest Dwellers Fight for Survival

FEATURE / COEXISTANCE

The Mbuti of the Ituri Rainforest have resisted pressure to assimilate, but their traditional, nature-rooted way of life remains threatened by armed groups, poachers, and extractive industries.

Words / Robyn Huang
Photography / Matt Reichel

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Narrative

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Mbuti: Congo’s Last Forest Pygmies Persist Despite Violence and Loss
Mbuti: Congo’s Last Forest Pygmies Persist Despite Violence and Loss

The Mbuti Pygmy people of the Congo’s Ituri Rainforest have largely avoided external pressures to abandon traditional practices and integrate into modern society, but their way of life is continuously at risk.

In Mexico, Keeping a Peyote Pilgrimage Alive
In Mexico, Keeping a Peyote Pilgrimage Alive

Psychedelic tourists, plant poachers, mining companies, and farming encroachment all threaten the Wixárika people’s most sacred land and resource.

Mexican Caviar: Foraging and Eating Farty Ant Larvae
Mexican Caviar: Foraging and Eating Farty Ant Larvae

Writer and food explorer Robyn Huang delves into Mexico’s most curious culinary delicacy— queen ant eggs— in rural Hidalgo with chef JC Redon.