Mac Stone is a conservation photographer, filmmaker and National Geographic Explorer. He is based in South Carolina. His work focuses on wetlands, swamps and the wild places of the American South.
He grew up in Gainesville, Florida. He trained as a biologist. As a boy he found his father's old Minolta camera and took it on small adventures near his home. He is a contributing photographer for National Geographic Magazine. He is also the Executive Director of Naturaland Trust, a land trust in the Southeast.
His book Everglades: America's Wetland was published by University Press of Florida. It has 304 pages. His TED talk about changing how people see swamps has been viewed more than one million times.
In 2026 he published two books. American Amazon (teNeues, 2026) brings together more than 20 years of work across the southeastern United States. It is a companion to an IMAX film and a PBS Nature series. Cypress: The Last Old-Growth Swamps (University Press of Florida, 2026) looks at the last ancient bald cypress forests of the American South.
