driest images - Joel Sartore

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

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

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

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

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

Abandoned cemetery, Atacama Desert, Chile

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

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

National Geographic Photographer and Speaker