Joel Sartore Joel Sartore

National Geographic Photographer and Speaker

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Photo: Criss-crossed by the shadows of containment bars in the back of a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle, a ten-year-old boy is driven back to his hometown of Matamoros after being caught sneaking into Brownsville, Texas.

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Criss-crossed by the shadows of containment bars in the back of a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle, a ten-year-old boy is driven back to his hometown of Matamoros after being caught sneaking into Brownsville, Texas.

Photo: A Mexican family wade across the Rio Grande beneath the International bridge, leaving Matamoros and entering Brownsville, Texas illegally.

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A Mexican family wade across the Rio Grande beneath the International bridge, leaving Matamoros and entering Brownsville, Texas illegally.

Photo: Ranch hands relax and joke after a day of working cattle on the 130,000-acre Callaghan ranch near Encinal, Texas.

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Ranch hands relax and joke after a day of working cattle on the 130,000-acre Callaghan ranch near Encinal, Texas.

Photo: Surrounded by a mountain of maroon sweatshirts, top seamstress Rolanda Vasquez Hernandez assembles more sweatshirts to add to the pile.

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Surrounded by a mountain of maroon sweatshirts, top seamstress Rolanda Vasquez Hernandez assembles more sweatshirts to add to the pile. The sign above her head indicates that she meets or exceeds 100 percent of her production goal at the Nova/Link plant, a “maquiladora,” or assembly plant.

Photo: Members of the Escaramuza Espuelas de Oro, the Golden Spur Equestrian drill team, are dressed in traditional Mexican dress at a festival in El Paso, Texas.

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Members of the Escaramuza Espuelas de Oro, the Golden Spur Equestrian drill team, are dressed in traditional Mexican dress at a festival in El Paso, Texas.

Photo: Pedestrians on a walkway are bombarded by loud signs written in English and Spanish in Laredo, Texas.

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Pedestrians on a walkway are bombarded by loud signs written in English and Spanish in Laredo, Texas. Many of the residents, about 75 percent, are bilingual.

Photo: An aloe plant in an aloe field, where many of the workers are resident aliens, Mexican citizens with green cards allowing them to work in the United States.

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An aloe plant in an aloe field, where many of the workers are resident aliens, Mexican citizens with green cards allowing them to work in the United States. The aloe leaves will be processed into ointments, cosmetics, and beverages after harvest.

Photo: A mirror illusion makes the midway barker appear like half a man at the Texas state fair.

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A mirror illusion makes the midway barker appear like half a man at the Texas state fair.

Photo: The look-alike contest for mothers and daughters at the Iowa state fair.

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The look-alike contest for mothers and daughters at the Iowa state fair.

Photo: Cattle show at the coliseum at the Minnesota state fair.

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Cattle show at the coliseum at the Minnesota state fair.

Photo: Sisters with rainbow colored hairstyles with glitter at the Minnesota state fair.

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Sisters with rainbow colored hairstyles with glitter at the Minnesota state fair.

Photo: Atop the 80-foot tower during a high dive act at the Nebraska state fair.

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Atop the 80-foot tower during a high dive act at the Nebraska state fair.

Photo: Iowa fairgoers bite in synchrony at the first-ever Corn Dog Chomp.

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Iowa fairgoers bite in synchrony at the first-ever Corn Dog Chomp.

Photo: A teenager and her calf took top honors at the Indiana State Fair.

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A teenager and her calf took top honors at the Indiana State Fair.

Photo: Madagascar hissing roaches pull tiny tractors at the Indiana state fair.

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Madagascar hissing roaches pull tiny tractors at the Indiana state fair.

Photo: Volunteers go catatonic at the snap of a hypnotist's fingers at the Iowa state fair.

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Volunteers go catatonic at the snap of a hypnotist’s fingers at the Iowa state fair.

Photo: A stunt man performs a car jump from a flaming ramp at the Iowa state fair.

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A stunt man performs a car jump from a flaming ramp at the Iowa state fair.

Photo: Wildlife spotter and guide in the rear-view mirror of his vehicle on the Rio Negro ranch in Brazil.

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Wildlife spotter and guide in the rear-view mirror of his vehicle on the Rio Negro ranch in Brazil.

Photo: A ranch hand holds a dorado he has caught in the flooded forest on Barra Bansa ranch in Brazil.

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A ranch hand holds a dorado he has caught in the flooded forest on Barra Bansa ranch in Brazil.

Pronghorn antelope (Antilocapra americana) travel a road in the Modoc Plateau of northern California to avoid heavy snow.

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Pronghorn antelope (Antilocapra americana) travel a road in the Modoc Plateau of northern California to avoid heavy snow.

Photo: Ranch hands at the Bull and Gelding Sale in Red Bluff, California.

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Ranch hands at the Bull and Gelding Sale in Red Bluff, California.

Photo: Ranch hands pack bales of hay for winter in Modac County, California.

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Ranch hands pack bales of hay for winter in Modac County, California.

Photo: A young boy dodges a nuzzle from a llama visiting his school in Palo Cedro, California.

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A young boy dodges a nuzzle from a llama visiting his school in Palo Cedro, California.

Photo: An elderly man gathers oranges in California's citrus growing belt.

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An elderly man gathers oranges in California’s citrus growing belt.

Photo: A tanker moves down a channel which bisects Sabine NWR in Louisiana.

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A tanker moves down a channel which bisects Sabine NWR in Louisiana. Part of this reserve has a system of gates, which can be closed in case an oil spill occurs .

A local resident draws a laugh from her daughter by donning the head of a musk ox (Ovibos moschatus) recently shot by her husband. Sport hunters are allowed to kill approximately 70 of these animals, once extinct in Alaska, per year.

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A local resident draws a laugh from her daughter by donning the head of a musk ox (Ovibos moschatus) recently shot by her husband. Sport hunters are allowed to kill approximately 70 of these animals, once extinct in Alaska, per year.

A musk ox bull (Ovibos moschatus) charges at Joel Sartore, on Nunivak Island, Alaska. These animals descended from stock brought in from Greenland in 1935.

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A musk ox bull (Ovibos moschatus) charges at Joel Sartore, on Nunivak Island, Alaska. These animals descended from stock brought in from Greenland in 1935.

A wire fence keeps elk (Cervus canadensis) on Elk National refuge land and from roaming into the town of Jackson, Wyoming.

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A wire fence keeps elk (Cervus canadensis) on Elk National refuge land and from roaming into the town of Jackson, Wyoming.

Picture of a herd of American bison (Bison bison) standing in the rain on Fort Niobrara NWR in Nebraska.

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A herd of American bison (Bison bison) standing in the rain on Fort Niobrara NWR in Nebraska.

Photo: A volunteer collects seeds from wildflowers and native grasses to plant.

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A volunteer collects seeds from wildflowers and native grasses to plant. Since they were never farmed, old graveyards are prime locations for finding the original tallgrass that has virtually disappeared elsewhere on the Great Plains.

Ross' geese (Chen rossii) fly over fields flooded for their benefit. The artificial habitat was created to divert the birds from feeding on farmers' crops.

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Ross’ geese (Chen rossii) fly over fields flooded for their benefit. The artificial habitat was created to divert the birds from feeding on farmers’ crops.

Photo: Suburbs surround the salt ponds of San Diego Bay, part of which may become a new National Wildlife Refuge in California.

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Suburbs surround the salt ponds of San Diego Bay, part of which may become a new National Wildlife Refuge in California.

Photo: Black skimmers (Rhynchops niger) on a salt pond beside San Diego bay in California.

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Black skimmers (Rhynchops niger) on a salt pond beside San Diego bay in California.

Photo: An aerial of bayou DeView, where there have been ivory billed woodpecker sightings in Arkansas.

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An aerial of bayou DeView, where there have been ivory billed woodpecker sightings in Arkansas.

Photo: Biologists from Cornell eat their lunch standing while searching for the ivory billed woodpecker in the White River National Wildlife Refuge in St. Charles, Arkansas.

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Biologists from Cornell eat their lunch standing while searching for the ivory billed woodpecker in the White River National Wildlife Refuge in St. Charles, Arkansas.

A collection of more than sixty specimens of critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered ivory billed woodpecker, Campephilus principalis, at Harvard University.

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A collection of more than sixty specimens of critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered ivory billed woodpecker, Campephilus principalis, at Harvard University.

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