Joel Sartore Biography
Joel Sartore is an American photographer, teacher, author, speaker and prolonged donor to National Geographic magazine.
He is the CEO of the National Geographic Photo Ark project, a 25-year effort to document the approximately 12,000 species living in the world’s zoos and wildlife sanctuaries.
Sartore graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a degree in journalism. His love for nature started while he was a child when he he had knowledge about the irrefutable passenger pigeon from one of his mother’s Time-Life picture books.
He has since been in close contact with a wide variety of species including wolves, grizzlies, musk oxen, lions, elephants, and polar bears. Sartore has also offered help to Audubon Magazine, GEO, Time, Life, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated and many book projects.
At Close Range, he has been a contributor to the CBS Sunday Morning Show with Charles Osgood. He appeared in the film Racing Extinction in 2015 where he photographed the last Rabb’s fringe-limbed treefrog.
Most recently, Sartore and The Photo Ark were the subjects of a three-part series that premiered on PBS titled: RARE: “Creatures of the Photo Ark”. In 2018, Sartore was presented with the Rolex National Geographic Explorer of the Year award.
Sartore is a fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP) and resides in Lincoln, Nebraska with his wife and children.
Joel Sartore Age
Sartore was born on 16th June 1962 in Ponca City, Oklahoma in the United States.
Joel Sartore Family
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Joel Sartore Wife
Sartore likes to keep his personal life private hence information about his dating life is not available. It is therefore not known whether he is married or has any children. However, this information will be updated as soon as it is available.
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- Hair Colour: Black
- Eye Color: Dark brown
Joel Sartore Net Worth
Working as an photographer at National Geographic Photo Ark project, there is no doubt Sartore earns a good salary and has been able to accumulate good net worth. However, his exact net worth has not yet been revealed but the information will be updated as soon as it is available.
Joel Sartore Photo Ark
Sartore led the The Photo Ark which is a National Geographic project. It has the goal of photographing all species living in zoos and wildlife sanctuaries around the globe. The results have been documented in a series of books and in a 2017 PBS TV miniseries which was released to home video.
To spread awareness of this undertaking, a selection of photographs from The Photo Ark has been exhibited in various locations around the world in a variety of diverse locations such as the Auditorium Parco Della Musica in Rome, Italy, and the Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art Amphitheater in Millersburg, Pennsylvania.
Regarding the scope of the project, Sartore has said “The logistics of pulling off a project of this scope is numbing at times. The travel, the long hours, the setup and teardown of our mobile photo studio… it wears me down just thinking about it.”
Joel Sartore Photography Style
Joel Sartore was surrounded by animals and nature. “My father took me hunting, fishing, and mushroom hunting,” he recalls. “And my mother always loved backyard birds and flowers. Because my parents cared about the natural world, I care about it too.”
Sartore being the founder of the Photo Ark, a long-term documentary project to rescue species and their natural environment, Sartore has become a hard working annalist of jeopardized species and landscapes. Until now, he has photographed photos of more than 8,500 species. His aim is to create studio-style portraits of all animal species in human care around the world – an estimated 12,000 species at least.
Joel Sartore Books| How many Photo Ark Books are There
- America’s Endangered Species
- Under a Big Red Sky
- Face to Face with Grizzlies
- Portraits of America’s Endangered Species
- Let’s Be Reasonable
- Fundamentals of Photography
- One Man’s Quest to Document the World’s Animals
- Uccelli
- The World’s Most Vulnerable Animals
- The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Great Photography
Joel Sartore Ted Talk
Joel Sartore has been capturing life across the globe for over 22 years. And it was these travels across our Blue Marble that lead him to take on a personal project that he hopes will bring awareness to a subject he’s held dear since he was a child called Photo Ark, Sartore has teamed up with zoos and rescue facilities across the globe to document the last of some of the most endangered animals on our planet, and in the TEDx talk above, he tells you all about this moving endeavor.
If this project sounds familiar, it’s because we’ve covered it in the past. What we’re sharing with you today is the talk Sarte gave at TEDxMidwest last year. In the talk, he dives deeper into the adventures he’s had, explaining the why behind the Photo Ark. It’s just shy of 20 minutes long and well worth every last second.
Joel Sartore Selected Work
- The Company We Keep: America’s Endangered Species, 1995, National Geographic Society (1997 reprint), ISBN 0-7922-3310-7, with Douglas H. Chadwick
- Nebraska: Under a Big Red Sky, 1999, Nebraska Book Company (2006 Reprint, University of Nebraska Press), ISBN 0-9648992-6-4
- Photographing Your Family, 2008, National Geographic, ISBN 1-4262-0218-0, with John Healey
- Rare: Portraits of America’s Endangered Species, 2010, Focal Point (National Geographic), ISBN 1-4262-0575-9
- Let’s Be Reasonable, 2011, University of Nebraska Press, ISBN 0-8032-3506-2
- Fundamentals of Photography, 2012, Teaching Co.
- Fundamentals of Photography II, 2015, Teaching Co.
- The Photo Ark: One Man’s Quest to Document the World’s Animals, 2017, ISBN 9781426217777
- RARE: Creatures of the Photo Ark, PBS mini-series 2017
- Birds Of The Photo Ark, 2018, ISBN 978-1426218989
Joel Sartore Films
- 2012 Last Call with Carson Daly
- 2014 NBC Nightly News
- 2016 The Today Show
- ABC News Nightline 2017
- 2017 PBS Rare Creatures of The Photo Ark
- CBS Sunday Morning 2017
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Sartore is one of America’s best-known and loved photographer, speaker, author and teacher .
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Sartore lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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