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unusual facts about conservation photography


Conservation photography

According to the acclaimed photographer, Joel Sartore, “the typical nature photograph shows a butterfly on a pretty flower. The conservation photograph shows the same thing, but with a bulldozer coming at it in the background. This doesn’t mean there’s no room for beautiful pictures, in fact we need beautiful images just as much as the issues. It does mean that the images exist for a reason; to save the Earth while we still can.”


Ian Shive

Shive is an emerging member of the International League of Conservation Photographers, a Washington, D.C. based conservation photography lobbyist group.


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