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 ...

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 ...

Joel Sartore is a gifted wildlife photographer ... Since then, he has created a stunning photographic record of the extinction crisis, dubbed the Photo Ark, images from which he shares daily, ...

To reflect the project’s life-preserving mission, Sartore named it Photo Ark. By the time you read this, Sartore expects to have portraits of nearly 10,000 animals in the Ark. He plans to keep ...

Photographer Joel Sartore is the founder of Photo Ark, a multiyear, joint project with National Geographic to create a photo archive of every animal species in captivity.

World-renowned photographer Joel Sartore is on a mission to photograph the world’s most rare and vulnerable species. If you want to start your own photo ark, or simply take your everyday ...

The National Geographic Photo Ark is a multiyear effort with photographer Joel Sartore to photograph all captive species and help save these animals before many disappear forever. Learn more at ...

The naked mole rat qualified. From that modest beginning came Photo Ark, a joint project of Sartore and National Geographic. Within a 25-year span, Sartore aims to document as many of the species ...

National Geographic photographer, Joel Sartore, is on a mission to make people fall in love with wildlife, inspiring them to take action. When finished, his Photo Ark will contain striking studio ...

Joel Sartore has been photographing animals for his Photo Ark project for 13 years. In an ever growing number of cases, animals housed in zoos or special breeding facilities are among the last ...

One such program is Joel Sartore’s Photo Ark, a 25-year project to photograph every one of the 15,000 species in human care. The photographs Joel makes use black or white studio backgrounds to ...

For Photo Ark, Sartore has immortalized all living creatures, both big and small—from mussels and beetles, to seals and elephants—in more than fifty countries. He won’t stop, he says ...