
Joel Sartore, contract photographer, was born in Ponca
City,Oklahoma, and obtained a degree in journalism from the University
of Nebraska in 1985. He began his career at the Wichita Eagle
and became the newspapers director of photography in 1990.
Sartores work has earned many awards, including a sweepstakes
award for photography from the Inland Daily Press Association
in 1987 and an Award of Excellence in the Magazine Photographer
of the Year category at the National Press Photographers Associations
Pictures of the Year competition in 1992. He was a guest speaker
at the National Press Photographers Associations Flying
Short Course in the fall of 1993. Sartores recent work
for NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
includes Tex-Mex Border,
in February 1996, Utah: Land of Promise, Kingdom of Stone,
in January 1996, and the March 1995 cover story, Dead
or Alive: The Endangered Species Act.
Sartores work appears in Octobers Online feature
about U.S. National Wildlife Refuges.
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