Meet Durban's Skye Meaker, photographer extraordinaire, Davos 2019's youngest speaker

The subject of this episode had two bits of good fortune. First, to have parents who were mad about the bush. Second, to find his passion – wildlife photography – outrageously early, in his case even before he started attending school.
Those twin pieces of fortune brought 16 year old Skye to the 2019 World Economic Forum annual meeting, via the unlikely route as the under 18 winner of the 45,000 entrant World Wildlife photographer competition.
After placing some years ago, he has a dry run until the 2018 competition where his patiently acquired pic of a leopard he had followed for eight years scooped the top prize for this young Durbanite. The WEF invited him to Davos and his engagement alongside iconic Jane Goodall made him the youngest speaker at this year’s event.
At around the same age as Grade 11 learner Skye Meaker is now, I had a life transforming experience sparked by an overseas trip. So was keen to discover whether the exposure to something as overwhelming as Davos would change him…we kick off the interview from the part in our chat where I asked Skye what he was likely to take home…