New Podcast: Joel Sartore – Nat Geo’s Photo Ark
In this month’s podcast we talk to Joel Sartore, founder of NatGeo’s Photo Ark project and one of the world’s most preeminent wildlife photographers.
Joel describes his passion for conservation, a passion inspired by parents who cared and a childhood spent in nature.
He outlines his career, which took him from a cub photographer with the Wichita Eagle, to National Geographic where he now runs the Photo Ark and has photographed more than 18,000 species in human care.
Joel explains his photographic techniques and the influence of the artist John James Audubon.
And he offers hope for the future, despite the extinction crisis we are facing, talking about how zoos and ecotourism are helping to save nature. Meanwhile Joel frightens Jon at the prospects of life “in the chocolate factory”.
You can follow Joel on Instagram, along with almost 2 million other people. There are many articles and videos about Joel online, including this PBS show Rare: Creatures of the Photo Ark about his work.
You can stream the entire episode here, or on Spotify, Apple and other podcast platforms.
Cover art: Joel Sartore photographs Johnny the serval, Leptailurus serval, at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo, Nebraska, 2018. Photo by Cole Sartore/National Geographic Photo Ark.
An endangered Coquerel’s sifaka, Propithecus coquereli, at the Houston Zoo. Photo by Joel
Sartore/National Geographic Photo Ark.
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