Photographer and conservationist Joel Sartore wants his audience to “look these animals in the eye.” As the founder of the National Geographic Photo Ark, a project documenting the world’s species ...

Photographer and conservationist Joel Sartore wants his audience to “look these animals in the eye.” As the founder of the National Geographic Photo Ark, a project documenting the world’s species ...

Photographs of the last male Sehuencas frog raised funds to find it a mate. Photograph by Joel Sartore / National Geographic Photography underpins the efforts of almost all wildlife ...

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. A naked mole rat. That was photographer Joel Sartore’s first model in 2006 when he began making studio portraits of ...

Joel Sartore is a photographer, speaker, author, teacher, conservationist, National Geographic Fellow and a regular contributor to National Geographic Magazine. Joel started the Photo Ark in his ...

Q: Will the Photo Ark ever be complete? Joel: Yes, we are halfway done after 11 years with 6,500 species. Because we’ll now have to travel farther and wider to get the remaining species ...

"Whether it's big or small, we love them all," Sartore said. National Geographic photographer and Photo Ark founder Joel Sartore with frill necked lizard, Chlamydosaurus kingii, in Victoria ...

This is a crime scene in a remote corner of California, high in the Sixty Lakes Basin area of the Sierra Nevada: mountain yellow-legged frog corpses lie belly-up. The culprit is a chytrid fungus, ...

Joel Sartore travels to the world's zoos, capturing images of animals in captivity that might end up being the last of their kind. Photographing The World’s Vanishing Biodiversity In Order To ...

Did you know that for online applications you can have your photo taken at home with a camera, tablet or phone? Poor quality photographs are the main reason we have to reject passport applications.