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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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.