1. PHOTOGRAPHY
RESEARCH
PHOTOGRAPHER : JOEL SARTORE
Genewin Brandon Ann3B 13912

2. WHAT HE IS MOST KNOWN FOR ? MOST
FAMOUS/IMPORTANT WORK ?
He is most known as a National Geographic photographer
and a conservationist, due to his contribution for wildlife
environtment, land use and endangered species.
He is also a founding fellow of International League of
Conservations Photographers and National Geographic
Society.

3. SPESIFIC INFORMATION ABOUT HIS
STYLE, HAS THEIR STYLE CHANGE OVER
THE COURSE OF THEIR CAREER ?
Most of the photos take by him shown endangered animal
and nature environtment.
Boats burn off surface oil not far from the
Deepwater Horizon spill site, creating huge
black columns of smoke in the Gulf of Mexico.

4. CONTRIBUTION TO THE FIELD OF
PHOTOGRAPHY
He has shown keen interest in raising awareness for
conservation, mainly focusing on endangered species,
maintaining wildlife management on land use.
He took photos of 1500 species and more, some have run in
National Geographic Magazine, one in Endangered Species
Act.

5. HOW HIS WORK INFLUENCE / MAKE A
POSITIVE CHANGE ?
His photos has influence which allowed us to see human
impact on the environtment first- hand, it can help get people
to care about the existence of these creatures and their
ecosystem.
Quote by Joel Sartore : “It is folly to think that we can
destroy one species and ecosystem after another and not
affect humanity. When we save species, we’re actually
saving ourselves.”

6. HOW DOES HE MAKE A LIVING ?
He works as both freelance photographer, and on several
occasions, he works as contract photographer.
He also has published photobook about America’s
Endangered Species, it features potraits some of the
country’s most endangered species.

7. SPECIAL TECHNIQUE USED ?
He often used freeze motion photography technique, to
capture objects that moves at certain speed, he captured it
with a high shutter speed and freeze the action/ movement.
To achieve an accurate focus of the objects, it is very
recommended to enable camera’s focus point to the object
location in the planned composition.

8. HOW DISTINGUISH HIS WORK FROM
OTHERS ?
His photos usually capturing objects such as endangered
animals when its moving at very close distance with the
camera. (Close up shots).

9. HOW DO YOU RESPOND TO THE
PHOTOGRAPHERS WORK ? WHAT DID
YOU LEARN FROM HIM ?
From his photographs,I learned it is not enough for a
photographer just to capture and show beautiful animal or
landscape.
We could not afford to just continue show the beauty of
nature, absolutely we could, but we can’t pretend anymore that
everything is lovely, we should try to capture something from
different point of view to inform people who see the photos
about whats really going on out there such as environtmental
issue.

10. JOEL SARTORE’S PHOTOS
An ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) at the Omaha Zoo.

11. JOEL SARTORE’S PHOTOS
Studio portraits of a half-day-old hatchling leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea).

12. JOEL SARTORE’S PHOTOS
Coquerel's sifaka (Propithecus coquereli) at the Houston Zoo.

13. JOEL SARTORE’S PHOTOS
A spectacled owl (Pulsatrix perspicillata).

14. JOEL SARTORE’S PHOTOS
Brooks Falls in Alaska's Katmai Nat'l Park and Preserve is a popular tourist
spot. Bears pack the falls there, catching salmon as they swim upstream.

15. SOURCE
http://www.joelsartore.com/
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/explorers/bios/joel-
sartore/