Joel Sartore

Steve Seamons (left) and Joel Sartore (right) as Joel is awarded the prestigious Rungius Medal at the National Museum of Wildlife Art
Joel Sartore
Born June 16, 1962
Occupation Photographer, Public Speaker, Author, Teacher
Website www.joelsartore.com

Joel Sartore (born June 16, 1962) is an American photographer, speaker, author, teacher, and a long time contributor to National Geographic magazine. He is the head of The National Geographic Photo Ark project, a 25-year effort to document the approximately 12,000 species living in the world's zoos and wildlife sanctuaries.

Life and work

Sartore was born on June 16, 1962 in Ponca City, Oklahoma. He grew up in Ralston, Nebraska and graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a degree in journalism.[1]

His interest in nature started in childhood, when he learned about the very last passenger pigeon from one of his mother's Time-Life picture books. He has since been in close contact with a wide variety of species including wolves, grizzlies, musk oxen, lions, elephants and polar bears. His first National Geographic assignments introduced him to nature photography, and also allowed him to see human impact on the environment first-hand.

In addition to the work he has done for National Geographic, Sartore has contributed to Audubon Magazine, GEO, Time, Life, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated and numerous book projects. Sartore and his work have been the subjects of several national broadcasts including National Geographic's Explorer, the NBC Nightly News, NPR's Weekend Edition, an hour-long PBS documentary, At Close Range[1], he has been a contributor on the CBS Sunday Morning Show with Charles Osgood. [1] In 2015, he had an appearance in the film Racing Extinction where he photographed the very last Rabb's fringe-limbed treefrog. Most recently, Sartore and The Photo Ark were the subjects of a three-part series which premiered on PBS titled: RARE: "Creatures of the Photo Ark".

In 2018, Sartore was presented with the Rolex National Geographic Explorer of the Year award.[2]

Sartore is a fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP),[3][4] and resides in Lincoln, Nebraska with his wife and children.

The Photo Ark

The Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art exhibiting the Photo Ark
Photo Ark on exhibit in Pennsylvania

The Photo Ark is a National Geographic project led by Sartore. It has the goal of photographing all species living in zoos and wildlife sanctuaries around the globe.[5] The results have been documented in a series of books and in a 2017 PBS TV miniseries[6] which was released to home video.

To spread awareness of this undertaking, a selection of photographs from The Photo Ark has been exhibited in various locations around the world[7] in a variety of diverse locations such as the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, Italy,[8] and the Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art Amphitheater in Millersburg, Pennsylvania.[9]

Regarding the scope of the project, Sartore has said "The logistics of pulling off a project of this scope is numbing at times. The travel, the long hours, the setup and teardown of our mobile photo studio… it wears me down just thinking about it."[10]:page 170 There are currently 8,485 species in the Photo Ark.

Selected works

  • The Company We Keep: America's Endangered Species, 1995, National Geographic Society (1997 reprint), ISBN 0-7922-3310-7, with Douglas H. Chadwick
  • Nebraska: Under a Big Red Sky, 1999, Nebraska Book Company (2006 Reprint, University of Nebraska Press), ISBN 0-9648992-6-4
  • Photographing Your Family, 2008, National Geographic, ISBN 1-4262-0218-0, with John Healey
  • Rare: Portraits of America's Endangered Species, 2010, Focal Point (National Geographic), ISBN 1-4262-0575-9
  • Let's Be Reasonable, 2011, University of Nebraska Press, ISBN 0-8032-3506-2
  • Fundamentals of Photography, 2012, Teaching Co.
  • Fundamentals of Photography II, 2015, Teaching Co.
  • The Photo Ark: One Man's Quest to Document the World's Animals, 2017, ISBN 9781426217777
  • RARE: Creatures of the Photo Ark, PBS mini-series 2017
  • Birds Of The Photo Ark, 2018, ISBN 978-1426218989

Film and television appearances

2012 Last Call with Carson Daly

2014 NBC Nightly News

2016 The Today Show

2017 ABC News Nightline

2017 PBS Rare Creatures of The Photo Ark

2017 CBS Sunday Morning

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Joel Sartore". Nationalgeographic.com. National Geographic. 25 April 2016. Archived from the original on 9 June 2018. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
  2. ↑ "Rolex National Geographic Explorer of the Year award, 2018 Awardee: Joel Sartore". Nationalgeographic.org. National Geographic. Archived from the original on 26 June 2018. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
  3. ↑ "Joel Sartore". ConservationPhotographers.org. International League of Conservation Photographers. Archived from the original on 13 May 2018. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
  4. ↑ "Senior Fellows". ConservationPhotographers.org. International League of Conservation Photographers. Archived from the original on 13 May 2018. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
  5. ↑ "National Geographic: The Photo Ark". NationalGeographic.org. National Geographic. Archived from the original on 13 May 2018. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
  6. ↑ "RARE: Creatures of The Photo Ark". PBS. Archived from the original on 13 May 2018. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
  7. ↑ "Photo Ark Exhibitions". NationalGeographic.org. National Geographic. Archived from the original on 13 May 2018. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
  8. ↑ "ESCLUSIVA NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Photo Ark Animal Wonders". en.auditorium.com. OTSQRP. Archived from the original on 17 May 2018. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  9. ↑ "National Geographic's Photo Ark by photographer Joel Sartore". Visitcentralpa.org. Susquehanna River Valley Visitors Bureau. Archived from the original on 13 May 2018. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
  10. ↑ "The Photo Ark: One Man's Quest to Document the World's Animals". books.google.com. Google. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
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