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 ...

The year was 2006, and National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore wanted to try making formal portraits of animals in captivity instead of his usual shots of them in the wild. For his first ...

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 ...

The world is full of animals and plants displaying a full ... orange and black stripes of a Bengal tiger. Photograph by Joel Sartore / National Geographic With a broad oceanic range and a life ...

World-renowned photographer Joel Sartore is on a mission to photograph ... That’s when the light is nicest and it’s also when many animals are most active. 5. To take full advantage of the ...