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Zoology was the first love of the great photographer and cinematographer, Wolfgang Suschitzky. His first photographs of animals date from before the Second World War when he was an assistant cameraman on a series of zoo films. He recalled later that the zoo keepers would enter the enclosures with him but it did not always go to plan: "I had to grab the camera and run for it when a kangaroo attacked me at Whipsnade, and I only just made the fence. But on the whole, the kind of animal photography which I do is fairly peaceful work!

Whilst Suschitzky's scenes of the streets of mid …