I was born in Esquel, in the Patagonian steppe,
into a family with roots in the Welsh colony that
settled this region in the 19th century. I didn’t
learn Patagonia from a map or a guidebook. I learned
it the way you learn a language as a child — without
noticing, until one day you realize you think in it.
I spent ten years leading motorcycle expeditions
through this territory. Thousands of kilometers of
steppe, cordillera, and coast, with clients who came
from the other side of the world looking for something
they couldn’t name precisely — a challenge that was
real, a landscape that was indifferent to them, a
moment of genuine exposure. I learned to read weather,
terrain, and people. And somewhere along the way, I
realized I had also learned to read animals.
The photography expeditions were not a plan. They
were an observation. During a motorcycle tour, one of
the clients — a serious photographer — watched me spot
a fox with a dead hare in its mouth, stop the convoy,
and wait in silence while he framed the shot.
At the end of the week, he had fifty photographs that
didn’t exist anywhere else. He turned to me and said:
there’s a business here.
He was right.
R40MOTO Wildlife Photography Expeditions is built on
fifteen years of knowing exactly where to be — and
the patience to wait until the light is right.
— Crhistian Austin
Esquel, Patagonia
This is a sister operation of R40MOTO, the motorcycle expedition company I’ve run in Patagonia since 2017. http://www.r40moto.com
No expedition runs on one person. Behind each departure: fauna guides, professional photographers for fieldwork assistance and workshops, additional drivers, paramedics, and a network of local baquianos — territory specialists and trackers built through fifteen years of operating in these landscapes.
Wildlife Photography Expeditions by R40Moto 