Women In The Wild A New Generation of Nature Photographers Women In The Wild

In recent years, many of the top awards in nature have been won by a new generation of women photographers, who are impacting on the style and direction of wildlife and environmental photography.

We profile a number of leading exponents of varied nationali- ties and backgrounds but with one thing in common – a desire to the natural world in a new, original and compelling way. Jen Guyton

Jen Guyton is a photographer and ecol- ogist with a passion for wildlife con- servation and communicating about nature. She has a BSc in Conservation and Resource Studies from the Univer- sity of California, Berkeley and a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Princeton University.

Jen is a National Geographic Explorer and Fulbright-National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellow in Goron- gosa National Park, Mozambique and has spent ten years travelling and working on wildlife and conservation projects in Africa.

She has been successful in a number of international competitions, including a category win- ner in Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2018, and her photo features on animal behaviour and conservation issues are widely published. Jen Guyton Sue Flood

Sue Flood is a wildlife filmmaker and photographer, specialising in the polar regions and marine subjects. Sue spent 11 years working for the BBC Unit in Bristol, Eng- land, before going freelance in 2005.

She was an Associate producer on the award-winning BBC / Dis- covery series The Blue Planet, and also more recently worked on Planet Earth as a field assistant and photographer, which took her as far afield as the Arctic, the Antarctic and the South Pacific.

Sue has also produced three films for the BBC including Polar Bears on Thin Ice and also a Killer Whale Special for the BBC/Discovery Channel. She has recently published a book featuring her emperor penguin photography. Sue Flood Karine Aigner Karine Aigner’s short life reads like a set of novellas. Raised in Saudi Arabia, Karine motorcycled through Vietnam, circumnavigated the globe by ship, taught English in Taiwan, and then there was the time the hyena pups chewed her shoes (while on her feet). On her first trip to Africa, she fell in love with a continent. From one chapter to the next, her adventures uncover her fervor to tell the stories of life through the lens of a ; her passion became stories of animals, their relationships to humans, and their own world.

For nine years, as the Senior picture editor for National Geographic Kids maga- zine, Karine used osmosis to suck in all she could about good storytelling and the makings of a “good picture.” In 2011 Karine ventured outside the office walls to a life of freelance photography and picture editing.

Karine leads photographic tours across the globe to cool places like the Galapagos and Tanzania. She has worked with children all over the world, using the camera as a tool to teach awareness and conservation. In her spare time, she works with public school systems, trying to get kids with into nature.

Karine is an associate fellow with the International League of Conservation Pho- tographers (iLCP) and a member of NANPA. Karine’s work has been featured in National Geographic Mag- azine, GEOLino, Nature Conservancy Magazine, and BBC Wildlife to name a few. Her imagery is represented by National Geographic Creative, and Tandem Stills & Motion.

Karine lives in Washington, DC. When she’s there, she can be found trying to carve out an hour of her day to get her newly adopted rescue dog out of the concrete jungle, and into the woods. Karine Aigner Tui De Roy Tui De Roy is an award-winning wildlife photographer, naturalist, and author of many books on wildlife themes around the world. She is also an ardent conservationist who has combined her life’s three passions, Wildness, Photography and Con- servation, into a successful career as a world communicator striving to sensitise her audiences to take better care of our natural planet.

Tui is Belgian by birth, but grew up in the Galapagos Islands, where her parents took her to lead a pioneering lifestyle when she was two years old. She never attended school, being home taught, and is fluent in four languages: English, French, Spanish and German. After more than 35 years in the Galapagos Islands, Tui relocated to the South Island of New Zealand 20 years ago. She runs The Roving Tortoise Nature Photogra- phy together with business partners Mark Jones and Julie Cornthwaite, working freelance under the logo “Images of Wildlife and Wilderness from Our Planet’s Most Pristine, Uninhabited Regions”. Tui De Roy Fiona Rogers Fiona is a full time British wildlife photographer who travels with her wildlife photographer husband to Africa and Asia photographing pri- mates in the wild.

She is interested in portraiture in general – “I love looking at por- traits created by David Bailey and Avedon and the like - and this has hopefully given me a broad base from which to come to grips with finding my own style in my photography of primates. Each primate to me is a character with a distinct personality. As such I want to treat them as if they were a person being pho- tographed in a studio, the objective being to bring out the essence of each individual. This approach is radically different from the way wildlife photogra- phy is traditionally presented. I try to break away from a documentary style, to something that makes a viewer think and feel when looking at my work. I would like to think that the subjects have been given a voice through the pictures.”

“I also like to work towards a long term project. For instance, my husband and I have committed ourselves to photographing the world famous Gombe Chimpanzees over a number of years.

The depth reflected by such an approach has been rewarded by full length articles and portfolios published in BBC Wildlife Magazine, Geo, Smithsoni- an Magazine, National Wildlife Magazine, and most recently, National Geographic Magazine.

The culmination of their Gombe Chimpanzee project has resulted in their book, published in October 2014, called ‘Tales from Gombe’. Fiona Rogers Orsolya Haarberg Orsolya Haarberg graduated as a land- scape architect in Hungary and then turned to studying the feeding behav- iour of Eurasian beavers for a PhD pro- gramme. When she met Erlend Haar- berg in Norway in 2004 she decided to concentrate on her hobby, nature photography, which she had been pas- sionate about since her early 20’s.

Erlend and Orsolya have worked as a photogra- pher team since 2005. They are based in Trondheim in Norway, and specialise in landscape and wildlife photography in the Nordic countries in Europe.

Together they have published three books: ‘Lapland – the Alaska of Europe’, ‘Iceland – land of contrasts’, and ‘Iceland in all its splendour’. Their work has been widely published in magazines, including Geo and BBC Wildlife Magazine. Their first story for National Geographic Magazine entitled Iceland’s resilient beauty (May 2012) shows a glimpse of their work achieved during a ten months stay in Iceland. In November 2013 they reached a milestone in their continuing project when NGM published their story Follow the water - journey to the heart of Norway.

Orsolya’s images have gained awards in several international photo contests including the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year, GDT European WPY, Nature’s Best Photography Awards and the Golden Turtle. In Hungary, Orsolya was awarded the title of ‘The Nature Photographer of the Year’ in 2009 and 2011. Orsolya Haarberg Cheryl-Samantha Owen Cheryl-Samantha Owen (Sam) is a photographer and writer specialising in the environment, conservation, science and ecology, with particular reference to Africa.

Born in Kenya, Sam developed a fierce drive to protect the continent’s resourc- es, and decided to train in the biological sciences. Sam holds a First Class MSc in Conservation Biology from the Percy Fitzpatrick Institute, University of Cape Town and a BSc Honours in Environmental Science and Business from Imperial College, London. She has lived in Africa for most of her life, and her work with Fauna and Flora International, Conservation International and the Save Our Seas Foundation has taken her across the continent and along its oceans and coasts, including expeditions to the remote Aldabra Atoll, Djibouti and the Tana River Delta.

Sam’s visual style combines an artist’s eye with both a scientist’s knowledge and a journalist’s sense of storytelling. Her work takes the viewer on a journey of discovery and stirs their cu- riosity. More than that, she provides a visual stimulus, which encourages us all to become better custodians of our planet. Sam is an Associate Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP). Cheryl-Samantha Owen Suzi Eszterhas

California-based wildlife pho- tographer Suzi Eszterhas spends nine months of the year shooting a wide variety of wildlife in the field. In recent years, she has specialized in documenting family life and has become well known for her work with new- born animals. Although Suzi works primarily in Africa, she has undertaken commissions and led instructional photography tours and work- shops everywhere from Antarctica and the Arctic to Alaska and Montana.

Her have been published in books, magazines and newspa- pers all over the world, including Smithsonian, Audubon, Ranger Rick, BBC Wildlife, Scientific American, Time, National Geographic Kids, and Your Big Backyard.

She has also won awards in many competitions, including the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition, National Wildlife Photo Contest, and Environmental Photographer of the Year Competition.

Having recently become a Patron of the Sumatran Orangutan Society, Suzi also helps suppport the Cheetah Conservation Fund, Wildlife Conservation Network, Inter- national Rhino Foundation, TigerTime (David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation), Kibale Chimpanzee Project, Aviarios Sloth Sanctuary, Center for An- imal Protection and Education and other organizations. Suzi Eszterhas Sandra Bartocha

Sandra Bartocha grew up in the beauti- ful countryside of Mecklenburg-West- ern Pomerania, Germany. Her father introduced her to photography at a young age - he worked as a photogra- pher and would take her with him on shoots after picking her up from kindergarten.

She photographs local landscapes and nature, in particular coastlines, forest scenes and flowers. Her main goal is to create images that interpret a scene in an artistic and aesthetic way in order to evoke emotion rather than just document a scene.

The beauty of nature and the beauty of natural light is a great source of inspi- ration to Sandra. She tries to photograph nature in an artistic way rather than trying to document it, focusing on details, light, colours and moods and using creative camera techniques to capture the beauty of a scene in the best way.

Her pictures have been pub- lished in European magazines, books and calendars, and she has received prizes in numerous inter- national competitions – including the Wildlife Photographer of the Year and International Photogra- phy Awards.

Sandra was vice-president of the Society of German Nature Pho- tographers (GDT) from 2007 to 2013 and is chief editor of the magazine GDT Forum Naturfotografie. She was one of the photographic team on the pan-European Wild Wonders of Europe initiative. Currently she is working on a long-term project about the north of Europe - LYS. Sandra Bartocha Lisa Hoffner

A native of California, Lisa has traveled the world documenting disappearing cultures and wild- life. Her never-ending curiosity about the world and passion for discovery continually tops off her tank of exploration. Living in sub-Sahara Africa afforded her the opportunity to document the way of life of African tribes and the environmental issues affecting the people and wildlife of the continent.

Her work has been recognized nationally and internationally in various publications such as BBC Wildlife, Natural History, Nation- al Geographic and Outside Magazine. She has been a 1st place winner in the Nature’s Best wildlife competition as well as Nation- al Wildlife and Kodak KINSA photo contests. Exhibitions include the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in 2003, 2004 and 2008.

She is also a member of the North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA) and a volunteer for the Wildlife Conservation Network (WCN). Lisa Hoffner Cherry Alexander

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Wildlife photographer and author Marie Read is renowned for images of birds that combine beauty with impactful storytelling.

Widely published during her 30-year career, her images have been featured nationally and internationally in magazines, books, calendars, websites and educational exhibits.

Marie’s articles and photo essays about bird behavior and bird photography have appeared in Living Bird, Bird Watching, Na- ture’s Best, and Wild Planet, among others. Her images have won awards in contests such as Share The View (Grand Prize Winner 2017), Nature’s Best, North American Nature Photography Asso- ciation Showcase, Audubon Photography Awards, and Festival de L’Oiseau. She has authored or co-authored several books about birds and their lives.

Her latest book, Mastering Bird Photography: the Art, Craft and Technique of Pho- tographing Birds and Their Behavior (Rocky Nook) will be released March 2019. Marie Read Georgette Douwma Georgette Douwma has been diving for 29 years and has travelled extensively in tropical countries to photograph the underwater world.

“My nature photography career started when I received a Nikonos, a dedicated underwater camera, as a present. I was passionate about marine life and now I could photograph it!

I joined the British Society of which was brilliant, as it provided a community where enthusiasts got together once a month to share stories and seek advice on cam- era techniques and equipment. This is where I met Peter Scoones who advised me to submit my pictures to a picture library.”

She has worked as a pho- tographer for the BBC on various documentaries and was the assistant of the award winning cameraman Peter Scoones, who filmed for the BBC series Planet Earth, Blue Planet, and Life. Her photographs are published in books and magazines all over the world. Georgette Douwma Catherine Jouan

French photogra- phers Catherine Jouan and Jeanne Rius have worked to- gether under a joint credit since 1985.

They have travelled the world under- taking long-term photography pro- jects in Australia, southern Africa, Central America and Madagascar as well as in some of Europe’s wilder places.

They aim to record in intimate detail the diversity of the places they work in - wild animals, plants and landscapes in all their variety, and are as interested in the small things as well as the more iconic species.

Their work has taken them to tropical rainforests, deserts, mountains, savannas and remote islands. They hope that by revealing the beauty and rich diversity of nature they will encourage their conservation. Catherine Jouan Lorraine Bennery Dae vent, nonem sectat et omnienis eat aspidel loriasi rerfercium quam illatemposa volo volorecta cum re pre dolum, asinverro odis ipsandis exerunti od essime niaecte nihicipsapit pre con plani sequo moluptatiis quiduci.

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