on assignment images - Joel Sartore

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Joel on assignment photographing the federally endangered Iowa Pleistocene snail (Discus macclintocki).

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A rattlesnake explores Joel Sartore’s camera bag during a Photo Ark photoshoot.

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Joel Sartore photographs a female white-thighed hornbill (Bycanistes albotibialis) at the North Florida Wildlife Center.

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Joel Sartore photographs a female white-thighed hornbill (Bycanistes albotibialis) at the North Florida Wildlife Center.

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Joel Sartore photographs a female white-thighed hornbill (Bycanistes albotibialis) at the North Florida Wildlife Center.

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Photos of Joel working at the Plzen Zoo in Plzen, Czech Republic. Image courtesy of Alex Crisp.

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Photos of Joel working at the Plzen Zoo in Plzen, Czech Republic. Image courtesy of Alex Crisp.

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Photographer Joel Sartore receives chemotherapy (antimony, an arsenic derivative) to treat leishmaniasis, a flesh-eating parasite that he got on assignment in Madidi National Park, Bolivia, through the bite of a phlebotomous sandfly.

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Creating video for the Photo Ark at the Peregrine Fund in Boise, Idaho. Using my Manfrotto 190XPRO3 tripod and XPRO ball head allowed for easy and smooth following of the birds as they walked around inside my cloth photo tent.

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On assignment for the Photo Ark using the Manfrotto XPRO Ball Head and Manfrotto 190XPRO3 tripod, both of which make shooting video quick and easy.

The subject was a male Snake River sockeye salmon in spawning colors at the Eagle Fish Hatchery in Idaho. Once near extinction, their captive breeding program ensures this magnificent fish’s survival.

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On assignment for the Photo Ark using the Manfrotto XPRO Ball Head and Manfrotto 190XPRO3 tripod, both of which make shooting video quick and easy.

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Joel Sartore photographs a Chinese water dragon, Physignathus cocincinus, at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo in Lincoln, NE.

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Behind the scenes look at a National Geographic Photo Ark shoot of American flamingos (Phoenicopterus ruber ruber) at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo in Lincoln, NE.

A picture of a Malay civet (Viverra tangalunga tangalunga) at the Singapore Zoo.

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Malay civet (Viverra tangalunga tangalunga) at the Singapore Zoo.

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Set up for mammal shoots at the Singapore Zoo. A man tests the lights.

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Set up for mammal shoots at the Singapore Zoo.

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A zookeeper with lilac-breasted rollers (Coracias caudatus caudatus) at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium.

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Joel Sartore poses with the RARE documentary crew at Fundacao Jardim Zoologico de Brasilia.

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The RARE documentary crew poses with camera gear at Fundacao Jardim Zoologico de Brasilia.

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An orange-spined hairy dwarf porcupine (Coendou spinosus) explores the studio set up and camera at the Membeca Lagos Farm, near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Joel Sartore on assignment for the Gray Wolves story.

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A portrait of Joel Sartore taken by Kanzi the Bonobo (Pan paniscus) at the Ape Cognition and Conservation Initiative (ACCI) in Des Moines, Iowa.
Kanzi took the portrait with a remote trigger during a Photo Ark documentary series by Nat Geo Wild.

The Ape Cognition and Conservation Initiative is the only research facility in North America to exclusively house and study bonobos. The Ape Initiative’s programs aim to enrich the lives of bonobos and increase awareness of bonobos and other great apes worldwide through responsible and sustainable research and conservation education. The Ape Initiative is situated on 230 acres in Des Moines, Iowa, USA – with over 6 acres of ape-accessible space. The Ape Initiative bonobos include the world-famous Kanzi, whose comprehension of spoken English and use of a lexigram keyboard has been well documented. All bonobos living at the Ape Initiative participate in a variety of husbandry activities as well as behavioral and cognitive research aimed at uncovering the evolutionary origins of human language, cognition, and behavior.

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Joel Sartore (left) and Pierre Chabannes on a spider shoot at Museum of Nature South Tyrol in Bolzano, Italy.

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Cole Sartore rigs lights above the monkey holding area at the Singapore Zoo.

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Kalibasib (Nickname is Kali), an 18-year-old male tamaraw or Mindoro dwarf buffalo, Bubalus mindorensis, at Tamaraw Gene Pool Farm on Mindoro Island in the Philippines.

This species critically endangered on the IUCN Red List.

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Joel shows an image to a group during a Photo Ark shoot inside the reptile house at the Assam State Zoo in Guwahati, Assam, India.

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Scenes from the Ark shoot inside the reptile house at the Assam State Zoo in Guwahati, Assam, India.

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Scenes from the Ark shoot inside the reptile house at the Assam State Zoo in Guwahati, Assam, India.

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Scenes from the Ark shoot inside the reptile house at the Assam State Zoo in Guwahati, Assam, India.

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Scenes from the Ark shoot inside the reptile house at the Assam State Zoo in Guwahati, Assam, India.

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Joel Sartore with a Horned screamer on assignment at the National Aviary of Colombia.

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A photographer prepares for a photo shoot at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, AK.

Picture of zookeepers with a federally threatened male spectacled eider (Somateria fischeri) at the Alaska SeaLife Center.

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Zookeepers with a federally threatened male spectacled eider (Somateria fischeri) at the Alaska SeaLife Center. This bird has been in decline since the 1980’s, attributed most likely to climate change and lead shot in their environment.