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Wildlife Photographers

I have a request from a photo editor for a list of wildlife photographers I like. Here’s my list. Contributors feel free to add to it and I’ll update.

UPDATED: September 25, 2009 (got some more names from a nature photo editor)

Photographers

Joel Sartore
Michael “Nick” Nichols
Jim Brandenburg
Mitsuaki Iwago
Steve Bloom
Norbert Wu
Thomas D. Mangelsen
David Doubilet
James Balog
Tui De Roy
Nick Brandt
Paul Nicklen
Frans Lanting
Araquém Alcântara
Daisy Gilardini
James Balog
Denver Bryan
Art Wolfe
Anup Shah
Kevin Schafer 
Tom & Pat Leeson
Daniel J. Cox
Wendy Shattil/Bob Rozinski
Florian Schulz
Gary Bell (marine)
David Hall (marine)
Brandon Cole (marine)
Cesar Aristeiguieta Photography
Charles Glatzer

Stock Agencies
Peter Arnold
Minden Pictures
Animals Animals
Images of Nature
National Geographic Images
Terra Brasil Imagens
Nature Picture Library
AGPix
VIREO (birds)
Sea Pics

Also, I like to check out the Wildlife Photographer of the Year award (here) to see emerging photographers. Archive of past winners (here).

by A Photo Editor on January 8, 2008 · 84 comments


{ 83 comments }

1 Pim Milo January 8, 2008 at 8:17 am
2 Gregg White January 8, 2008 at 8:17 am

Paul Nicklen

3 Pim Milo January 8, 2008 at 9:11 am

Frans Lanting http://www.lanting.com/

4 Frido Claudino January 8, 2008 at 9:37 am

My two cents…

Araquém Alcântara (Photographer) http://www.araquem.com.br/

Terra Brasil Imagens (Stock Agencie) http://www.terrabrasilimagens.com.br/

5 Cameron Davidson January 8, 2008 at 9:56 am

Daisy Gilardini is a Swiss photographer who shoots primarily in the Arctic and Antarctic.

http://www.daisygilardini.com/portfolio.html

6 Chris January 8, 2008 at 10:30 am

John Shaw (nature generalist, fantastic work): http://www.johnshawphoto.com/

Arthur Morris (avian): http://www.birdsasart.com/

7 Link Letter January 8, 2008 at 10:44 am

Ryan McGinley shoots wildlife:

http://tinyurl.com/3xfj6o

http://tinyurl.com/3c2zxx

8 Matt January 8, 2008 at 10:56 am

Thanks for sharing. There are some amazing pictures in there.

Wildlife photography has to be just about the coolest gig. Too bad I don’t have the money to spring for a safari. Let me know if you need any pictures from the wilds of Midwestern U.S. I can take a rockin’ picture of urban deer.

9 Rasmus January 8, 2008 at 11:53 am

Remo Savisaar
http://blog.moment.ee/

10 janel January 8, 2008 at 12:05 pm

Stock Agencies

Nature Picture Library (www.naturepl.com).

Note that many of their photographers are affiliated with the BBC’s Natural History Unit programs and all researchers on staff have biology degrees.

11 April Alvarez January 8, 2008 at 1:07 pm

Steve Winter, who is repped by NG Images

http://www.stevewinterphoto.com/

12 nabbott January 8, 2008 at 1:29 pm
13 Ryan January 8, 2008 at 1:31 pm

Phillip Colla has a lot of marine and underwater stuff.

http://www.oceanlight.com/

14 john fowler January 8, 2008 at 2:45 pm

John Fowler is a wildlife photographer specialising in small animals (insects, invertebrates, reptiles, amphibians, etc).

15 Michael Brown January 8, 2008 at 3:31 pm

Well, … I’m not shy at all!
Working mostly with macro type abstracts for hotels, casinos, offices, … etc.

http://pa.photoshelter.com/usr-show/U00000jfaeRCNSyQ

16 A Photo Editor January 8, 2008 at 4:32 pm

@15. Michael: Did you not see the headline “Wildlife Photographers”?

17 craig pulsifer January 8, 2008 at 4:36 pm

We shoot moose every fall.

18 lj January 8, 2008 at 7:27 pm

man, i’d love to see the rest of your lists.

19 dude January 8, 2008 at 7:30 pm

Terry Richardson

20 michael mcnamara January 8, 2008 at 9:55 pm

I know he’s tragically no longer with us, but I still love Galen Rowell’s images.

Also, I couldn’t agree more with Sartore…I literally moved out of Nebraska yesterday, and he is considered a national treasure there.

21 Doug January 8, 2008 at 10:09 pm
22 Michael Brown January 8, 2008 at 10:18 pm

Sorry about that Rob. My goof!
I was thinking nature photography in general.

23 dysf January 9, 2008 at 1:01 am

joel sartore rocks …

24 Natasha Mhatre January 9, 2008 at 4:34 am

I suppose self promotion is not frowned upon, so me too. I shoot in India.

http://natashamhatre.blogspot.com

25 manisha December 20, 2011 at 12:46 am

hi! natasha if you can please guide me i want to be a wildlife photographer . I I am a student just passed out my 12 n doing french, please do reply me!
I really need to do something. I want to make my passion my profession!

26 mike January 9, 2008 at 5:01 pm

Denver Bryan in MT has a huge collection.
http://www.denverbryan.com/

27 mário venda nova January 9, 2008 at 6:06 pm

i leave here the links to three great portuguese photographers:

http://www.joaocosme.net/cosme/default.aspx (Joao Cosme)

http://www.luisquinta.net/ (Luis Quinta)

http://www.joaonunesdasilva.com/home/home.htm (Joao Nunes Silva)

Thanks.

28 mário venda nova January 9, 2008 at 6:09 pm

Just one more:

http://www.antoniosa.com/ (António Sá)

thanks.

29 Miguel Garcia-Guzman January 9, 2008 at 7:19 pm

Here it goes a great one:

Art Wolf

http://www.artwolfe.com/home.html

Miguel

30 Mark Friedman January 11, 2008 at 9:20 pm

RE: Nature Photographers

In the somewhat narrow niche of avian nature photography, take a look at Arthur Morris’ work. He is represented by several agencies (I think Corbis is one).

31 Miguel Garcia-Guzman January 12, 2008 at 1:04 am

One more

http://www.paulnicklen.com/

Great images

Miguel

32 Paola Vozza January 14, 2008 at 3:38 pm

Dear Rob,
I am glad to see your nice portrait.
I’d like to thank you for this terrific post, it will be really useful for my work in Geo. Although I know most of the photographer in the list, I will have a lot of them to discover.
I’d like to add these ones:
Ingo Arndt http://www.ingoarndt.com/
Christian Ziegler http://143.50.159.112/zieglerito/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
Paul Starosta http://www.paulstarosta.com/
Stefan Unterthiner http://www.stefanounterthiner.com/, he shot a great story on the wandering albatross
and Fabio Liverani http://www.fabioliverani.com/
Best wildlife wishes.
Paola

33 Richard Wong January 19, 2008 at 12:09 am

Michael Forsberg has a great book on North American Sandhill Cranes. He’s based out of Nebraska.

http://www.michaelforsberg.com/gallery/store.php?category=crane&session=db17700280a29166c7a20d8f1fd786a8

34 Jagdeep Rajput January 29, 2008 at 4:58 am

This website is not yet functional but the work of Jagdeep Rajput can be seen at http://www.ardea.com and http://www.danitadelimont.com

35 Alan Majchrowicz March 11, 2008 at 12:12 pm

I love Frans Lanting, his name should be at the top of the list. How about another list for general nature photography? You can start with my name

36 Enrique Aguirre April 4, 2008 at 1:57 pm

Shameless plug… I’ll blow my own trumpet…

http://www.enriqueaguirre.com

enjoy!

37 Terry Smith April 8, 2008 at 5:08 pm

How is it possible that Moose Peterson is not on this list already?

http://moosepeterson.com

38 George Olson May 21, 2008 at 3:06 pm

Tom Vezo for birds! Top flight images, pardon the pun.
http://www.tomvezo.com/

39 Maria Dentinho June 17, 2008 at 7:24 am

Nuno Sá is a young photographer from the Azores (Portugal), with a few published books (mainly about whales and dolphins, and also a diving guide of the Azores). Excellente pictures of Whales and Dolphins on his site: http://www.photonunosa.com/
I think we will be seeing more of him the near future, love the site.
Thank´s

40 othmar r traninger June 20, 2008 at 1:30 pm

I would love to invite you to my photography site on http://www.myspace.com/oraoult . maybe you are interested in my work. have a nice day, othmar

41 Andrew Harrington August 10, 2008 at 3:02 pm

More shameless self promotion my web sites terribly out of date but you can see some of my more recent work at

http://pa.photoshelter.com/gallery-list?U_ID=U0000vs933Onpn8M

42 Gillian McMahon August 26, 2008 at 10:34 am

C.S.Ling
http://showcase.cslingphotography.com
http://blog.cslingphotography.com

one of my bookmarks. found her site from one of the web design gallery…
Her wildlife works are just absolutely breathtaking. the design of the site is really nice too.

Joel Sartore and David Doubilet are my top favorite photographers too.

43 harry September 7, 2008 at 9:15 am
44 kombizz September 10, 2008 at 10:03 am
45 Beno Klingh December 21, 2008 at 7:27 am

For images of european animals visit http://www.muckstein.com
There are many great images in this web!!!

46 Jon Love December 30, 2008 at 9:44 am

One shooter I personally knew, sadly passed away in 2000, Jean-Paul Ferrero; his agency was Auscape International (http://www.auscape.com.au) still active.
Frans Lanting knew him well, can verify.

47 Robert March 3, 2009 at 9:59 pm

Some of Iwago’s sites:
http://www.digitaliwago.com/
http://www.mitsubishielectric.co.jp/nature/

Swedish wildlife photographer Mattias Klum:
http://www.klum.se/

48 Dustin Finn April 17, 2009 at 12:54 pm

Scott Bourne
Artie Morris
Charles Glatzer

49 Harry April 23, 2009 at 7:46 am

This guy is the muts nuts

http://www.vincentmunier.com/

50 Jack Nordeen May 7, 2009 at 11:13 pm

I am a nature photographer from Nebraska. I have ejoyed your list of photographers it allowed me to see others i have nevere heard of. Thanks

51 Genny May 8, 2009 at 12:31 am

I can always count on Ken Archer and Tom & Pat Leeson to have the animal photos I’m looking for. I’m not sure if Ken has a website, but he’s really nice. And so are the Leesons: http://leesonphoto.com/

52 Joe Shaba June 17, 2009 at 12:27 am

Another Nebraska photographer is Derrald Farnsworth-Livingston. His website is http://www.journeyoflight.com

53 Travis Mclachlan July 20, 2009 at 10:49 pm

Hi there,

I am a wildlife and landscape photographer living on Vancouver island British Columbia Canada. I Have been shooting at a professional level for four years and have professional training at Western academy of Photography.

54 Stuart James Arnold August 31, 2009 at 6:52 am

Wildlife photographer 20+ years experience based in Botswana

55 Cameron Davidson September 25, 2009 at 7:14 pm

Add my friend Brian Skerry to the list for underwater shooters.

http://www.brianskerry.com

56 Rashid Latiff September 26, 2009 at 6:49 am

Specialising in South African wildlife and seascapes.

57 Brendan Delany October 14, 2009 at 9:50 am

check out the work being done by Mireille de la Lez in the Arctic – her book, ‘Vanishing World’, contains stunning images of polar bears and arctic landscape – images that carry an underlying message about global warming and its impact on our planet.

58 David S. November 30, 2009 at 2:33 pm

How about Jason Hahn and Les Voorhis? Both nationally recognized for their work. http://www.jasonhahn.com/index.php, and http://www.royaltineimages.com/

59 Mark Rathhs January 4, 2010 at 11:04 am

You may want to have a look at Richard Costin’s work. I think he is English.
http://www.richardcostin.com

Mark.

60 Gerry vanderwalt January 6, 2010 at 9:17 am

Photo-Africa features many photographers who upload African wildlife and nature photographs on a regular basis.

http://www.photo-africa.com

Gerry

61 Larry Thorngren January 24, 2010 at 11:44 pm

Throwing my hat in the ring. If it moves and is sparrow sized and larger I like to try and capture it with my camera. My favorite subjects are bighorns and wolves but as a former biology teacher I’ve also always got my eye out for everything else.

Photo galleries can be seen at http://www.larrythorngren.com

Photo blog at http://www.thewildphotographer.com

62 KATHY GROVES January 27, 2010 at 2:19 pm

Many years ago, I was on the Editorial staff of National Wildlife magazine and International Wildlife magazine for National Wildlife Federation.

I am an artist, and occasionally need photographs for art reference, and am interested in a few excellent photographs at regular intervals of select subjects from which I may work. Several of you are familiar names from my time at NWF. It will be delightful to speak with you again. Please do write or call.

Kathy Groves
2024 Senseny Road, Winchester, Virginia 22602
telephone, 540 665-9497

63 tejas February 13, 2010 at 5:45 am

respected photographers,
i am tejas. i am from karwar. i am 17 years old. i have a aim to become a good wild life photographer. i need the training to the required course. so please help me for the training of this wild life photography. please can any of the trainer help me to do this….

tejas.s
contact no.9538342730

64 Sherry February 15, 2010 at 8:01 pm

Another vote for Charles (Chas) Glatzer..wildlife photographer
http://www.shootthelight.coom

65 james March 2, 2010 at 2:25 pm

I feel this photographer is noteworthy as well .

66 james March 2, 2010 at 2:26 pm

I fell this photographer is noteworthy as well
http://www.oneearthimage.com

67 China Wildlife tour August 5, 2010 at 3:59 am

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More information please click http://www.camptour.com/wildanimalphotography/index.htm

68 Ally September 15, 2010 at 9:10 am

There’s Meethil Momaya, who has shot Indian wildlife and won an international award. http://meethil.com/
I like his work and his blog: http://www.junglebook.in/

69 Charles Glatzer October 16, 2010 at 9:45 pm

Chas is a world class wildlife photographer and teacher. See for yourself.

Danielle

70 Trevor January 11, 2011 at 12:18 pm

I like the work of Gerrit Vyn. he shoots wildlife with a style that really seems to capture a mood and sense of place. His website is http://www.gerritvynphoto.com
I would recommend looking through his stock archive for newer images: http://archive.gerritvynphoto.com/

71 damon January 12, 2011 at 3:57 am
72 Tony Bynum January 20, 2011 at 2:12 pm

How about this guy’s stuff:

http://linkd.in/g6RcZp

73 Scott Gutke February 16, 2011 at 1:43 am

An unknown name; however, soon to be household name “Kelly Thurgood” is one of the best Wildlife Photographers I know. Check him out for yourself: http://kellythurgood.com .

74 Marina Korobkova March 8, 2011 at 12:07 am

Igor Shpilenok
http://www.shpilenok.ru/

“I wish to convey the beauty of wild nature in Russia’s protected areas to people around the world and evoke in them the desire to conserve those areas.”
- Igor Shpilenok

75 cal April 20, 2011 at 9:58 am

I specialize in urban wildlife and wrote the book “Birds of Central Park”

My stock shots are available at http://www.digitalpopstock.com and in numerous stock agencies including Peter Arnold

76 Djuna Ivereigh May 16, 2011 at 8:00 pm

Thanks for this!

Djuna Ivereigh, Indonesia Wildlife:

http://djuna.photoshelter.com/gallery/Wildlife-of-Indonesia/G000035o3s78m7wU/

77 Beth August 29, 2011 at 12:07 pm

A wide variety of technically sound and artistically done wildlife photographs.

78 Mike August 29, 2011 at 12:10 pm
79 Joan Egert September 10, 2011 at 5:02 pm

I would like to add my website to the list, thank you!

80 Stefan November 17, 2011 at 10:44 am

Klas Ljung

http://klas-deerhunter.blogspot.com/

A large varity of wildlife photographs taken in southern swedish woodlands.

81 Barry Steven Greff December 2, 2011 at 10:52 pm

Nationally exhibited, internationally acclaimed. Ethereal sea and landscapes as well as intimate, close-up portraits of animals and jellyfish. Web Site: http://www.barrystevengreff.com / Blog: http://www.adventuresfrombehindtheglass.com

82 Joan Egert December 18, 2011 at 6:14 am

nature photography in general but specially wildlife in not controlled situations.

83 Cole Morris March 6, 2012 at 3:08 pm

Is a wildlife photographer who does mostly Waterfowl, ducks, geese, shore birds
He also does some work with smaller birds………..works in upper midwest, North Dakota etc………..also the Arizona area in the winter……….

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