‘It is much more than showing pictures of animals. It is about evoking emotion’ — how these stunning photos of rare Iberian Lynx converted a hunter into a photographer

“It is never ‘just a photo’,” says Alexandra Surkova, an award-winning wildlife and conservation photographer, who has spent much of her recent years documenting rare Iberian Lynx.

These wild cats are thought to have lived in the Iberian Peninsula for a million years, and recent conservation work has recovered the species from just 94 known such lynx to over 2,000 today.