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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY Environmental News Network
National Geographic Magazine
 
October 1996
 

Joel Sartore - Photographer

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 newspaper’s director of photography in 1990. Sartore’s 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 Association’s Pictures of the Year competition in 1992. He was a guest speaker at the National Press Photographers Association’s Flying Short Course in the fall of 1993. Sartore’s 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.”

Sartore’s work appears in October’s Online feature about U.S. National Wildlife Refuges.
 

Joel Sartore
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