petting images - Joel Sartore

Two teenagers pose for portraits with a chicken before heading to their senior prom.

Ellen Sartore with her dogs.

A tabby cat named Downtown at the Capital Humane Society in Lincoln.

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

Joel is a popular keynote speaker with conservation, corporate, and civic groups.

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Joel is the founder of the Photo Ark, a groundbreaking effort to document every species in captivity before it’s too late.

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National Geographic Photographer and Speaker