A lens, a piece of the past, and the last tragic act of a photographer! Moving, unforgettable... This photo captures the scene of an enraged brown bear entering a tent and baring its massive jaws. This photo has nothing to do with Photoshop. What happened to the photographer who took this picture inside the tent? Regrettably, this photo was the last work taken by the photographer in his lifetime, and the killer was this very brown bear.
His name was Michio Hoshino, a Japanese photographer who gave his life for photography. Michio Hoshino (Hoshi Michio, September 27, 1952 – August 8, 1996) was a Japanese photographer. He graduated from the Economics Department at Keio University. As a field photographer specializing in wildlife photography, particularly bears, he became one of the world's most renowned "Alaska photographers." In 1986, he won the Third Mainichi Animal Photography Award. In 1990, he received the Fifteenth Kimura Ihei Award. In 1999, the Japan Photographic Society posthumously awarded him a special prize. On August 8, 1996, while participating in a Japanese TV program filming project about brown bears on the Kamchatka Peninsula, he tragically lost his life when attacked by a brown bear outdoors in the early morning hours, shocking all of Japan. His posthumous works exhibition attracted millions of Japanese people to line up and pay tribute to this national treasure-level photographer.
Michio Hoshino's final work was taken on the morning of August 8, 1996. At the time, he was resting in his tent when suddenly a brown bear burst in. As a professional and dedicated photographer, his first reaction was not to flee but to take out his camera and capture what would be his last photo. Ultimately, he was killed by the enraged bear. Michio Hoshino, a legendary photographer, celebrated nature and life through his career photographing bears and other wildlife, but ultimately died in the line of duty due to an encounter with a bear.