Joel Sartore Joel Sartore

National Geographic Photographer and Speaker

Keyword: atacama

Photo: A cat gets some attention while standing on the stone corral that protects an Aymara woman's herd of sheep in Chile's Atacama desert.

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A cat gets some attention while standing on the stone corral that protects an Aymara woman’s herd of sheep in Chile’s Atacama desert.

Photo: A dust devil springs up near the Pan-American Highway in Chile's Atacama Desert.

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A dust devil springs up near the Pan-American Highway in Chile’s Atacama Desert.

Photo: A cat gets some attention while standing on the stone corral that protects an Aymara woman's herd of sheep in Chile's Atacama desert.

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A cat gets some attention while standing on the stone corral that protects an Aymara woman’s herd of sheep in Chile’s Atacama desert.

Photo: A cat gets some attention while standing on the stone corral that protects an Aymara woman's herd of sheep in Chile's Atacama desert.

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A cat gets some attention while standing on the stone corral that protects an Aymara woman’s herd of sheep in Chile’s Atacama desert.

Photo: A dust devil springs up near the Pan-American Highway in Chile's Atacama Desert.

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A dust devil springs up near the Pan-American Highway in Chile’s Atacama Desert.

Photo: A dust devil springs up near the Pan-American Highway in Chile's Atacama Desert.

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A dust devil springs up near the Pan-American Highway in Chile’s Atacama Desert.

Photo: A dust devil springs up near the Pan-American Highway in Chile's Atacama Desert.

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A dust devil springs up near the Pan-American Highway in Chile’s Atacama Desert.

Photo: A Humboldt penguin on a nest on the Pacific coast of Chile, near Antofagasta.

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A Humboldt penguin on a nest on the Pacific coast of Chile, near Antofagasta.

Photo: Humboldt penguins on the rocky Pacific coastline of Chile, near Antofagasta.

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Humboldt penguins on the rocky Pacific coastline of Chile, near Antofagasta.

Photo: Humboldt penguins on the Pacific coast of Chile, near Antofagasta.

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Humboldt penguins on the Pacific coast of Chile, near Antofagasta.

Photo: Scenics on the Pacific coast of Chile, near Antofagasta, showing sea stacks.

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Scenics on the Pacific coast of Chile, near Antofagasta, showing sea stacks.

Photo: Scenics on the Pacific coast of Chile, near Antofagasta, showing sea stacks.

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Scenics on the Pacific coast of Chile, near Antofagasta, showing sea stacks.

Photo: The rocky shoreline of the Pacific coast of Chile, near Antofagasta.

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The rocky shoreline of the Pacific coast of Chile, near Antofagasta.

Photo: The opening spread of the article "The Driest Place on Earth" about the Atacama Desert, in the August, 2003 issue of National Geographic magazine, featuring Joel Sartore's photos.

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The opening spread of the article “The Driest Place on Earth” about the Atacama Desert, in the August, 2003 issue of National Geographic magazine, featuring Joel Sartore’s photos.

Photo: The opening spread of the article "Last Ones" about the Attwater's prairie-chicken, in the March, 2002 issue of National Geographic magazine, featuring Joel Sartore's photos.

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The opening spread of the article “Last Ones” about the Attwater’s prairie-chicken, in the March, 2002 issue of National Geographic magazine, featuring Joel Sartore’s photos.

Photo: Hot breath of active volcanoes rises from roiling thermal pool fields in Chile's Atacama desert.

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Hot breath of active volcanoes rises from roiling thermal pool fields in Chile’s Atacama desert.

Photo: Two tourist are transfixed by the otherworldly terrain of the Valley of the Moon in Chile's Atacama desert.

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Two tourist are transfixed by the otherworldly terrain of the Valley of the Moon in Chile’s Atacama desert.

Photo: The desert dwarfs the one road from Calama to San Pedro de Atacama.

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The desert dwarfs the one road from Calama to San Pedro de Atacama.

Photo: Aymara woman with her llama herd on the desolate landscape of the high Chilean Atacama desert.

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Aymara woman with her llama herd on the desolate landscape of the high Chilean Atacama desert.

Photo: Miners masked against sun and cold carve up the land in search of borax in Chile's Atacama desert.

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Miners masked against sun and cold carve up the land in search of borax in Chile’s Atacama desert.

Photo: A street in San Pedro de Atacama as the day comes to an end.

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A street in San Pedro de Atacama as the day comes to an end.

Photo: Police, seen through the windshield of a truck, stop visitors speeding in Chile's Atacama desert.

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Police, seen through the windshield of a truck, stop visitors speeding in Chile’s Atacama desert.

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