Maya Santoro
Maya Santoro is a Brazilian biologist, wildlife photographer and expedition host. She photographs jaguars in the Pantanal and leads wildlife expeditions around the world.
Donna Wesley Spencer
Donna Wesley Spencer is a fine art photographer who lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Her book Recover & Release (Daylight Books) follows two years of visits to wildlife rescue centers.
Joachim Schmeisser
Joachim Schmeisser spent over 35 years in commercial photography before turning to endangered African wildlife. His books Elephants in Heaven (2017) and Last of Their Kind (2021) were published by teNeues.
Pedro Jarque Krebs
Pedro Jarque Krebs is a Peruvian fine art photographer known for portraits of animals lit like Baroque paintings. His books Fragile (2019) and WildLOVE (2024) were published by teNeues.
Patrick Blin
Patrick Blin is a French photographer born in 1959. His book Pure laine d'Écosse (BLIN plus BLIN, 2024) is about Scottish sheep in the Highlands.
Ami Vitale
Ami Vitale (born 1971) is an American photographer, writer and filmmaker based in Montana. She started out covering conflict as a photojournalist and has worked in more than 100 countries.
Beverly Joubert
Beverly Joubert (born 1957) is a South African wildlife photographer, filmmaker and conservationist. Since the early 1980s she has lived and worked in the African bush with her husband, Dereck Joubert, mostly in Botswana.
Andy Rouse
Andy Rouse (born c. 1965) is a British wildlife photographer based in South Wales. He left a career as a computer consultant to photograph animals full time in 1999.
Paul Nicklen
Paul Nicklen (born 1968) is a Canadian photographer and marine biologist who works mostly in the Arctic and Antarctica. He has photographed more than twenty stories for National Geographic, often from under the ice.
Steve Winter
Steve Winter (born c. 1956) is an American wildlife photographer who has worked for National Geographic since 1991. He is best known for his pictures of big cats, many made with camera traps he sets up like a studio in the wild.
Frans Lanting
Frans Lanting (born 1951) is a Dutch wildlife photographer who lives in Santa Cruz, California. For more than three decades he has photographed animals and wild places for National Geographic, from the Amazon to Antarctica.