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Photographer, queen of the wild things, work in progress. @viiphoto @natgeo
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So honored to have received the ASME award @asme1963 for Best Service and Lifestyle Photograph for this image from my @natgeo story “Cheetahs for Sale,” which goes inside the trafficking network helping to drain Africa of its cheetah cubs--and the efforts by Somalilanders to stop the illegal trade.
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This investigation has been a massive collective undertaking, and I’m indescribably grateful to the friends and colleagues I’ve worked with: the remarkable research team exposing these trafficking routes, @rem949 for championing this story and then writing the hell out of it, @alexa_keefe for your intelligence, insights and encouragement every step of the way, @insidenatgeo for supporting this project, and the countless Somalilanders and cheetah experts working tirelessly to save this species.
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#cheetah #trafficking #likescount @natgeo @insidenatgeo @viiphoto @hornofafricalliance @ccfcheetah
25 Feb 2022
For the past year @melaniegouby and I have been working on a long-term project on the future of the Congo Basin, which is the second-largest rainforest after the Amazon and plays a key role in storing Earth’s carbon. Now, the Democratic Republic of Congo will reopen to large-scale logging after a 20-year moratorium, fueling disputes over how the forest can be kept intact.
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Thrilled that Mel's investigation into this ambitious—and risky—new plan for the future management of the rainforest, with my images, was published in @natgeo yesterday. A huge thanks to @dominiqueanneh and @rkunzig for their support throughout this project, and @insidenatgeo for making it all possible. More to come from us soon(ish)!
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#congobasin #environment #climate @natgeo @insidenatgeo @viiphoto
01 Oct 2021
Many thanks @npr for sharing my work documenting the climate crisis, along with talented women @estherhorvath @matildegattoni @yadiraphotos @mettelampcov.
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"Meet 5 women documenting the effects of climate change around the world" is up on NPR today, and link in bio.
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#climatechange #somalia @viiphoto
02 Apr 2022
Glad for the chance to talk with @natgeo about the making of this story, and how to photograph the invisible: heat, and what it does inside a pregnant body.
I was pregnant, then a new mother, while I made this. I remember doing everything within reach for my son and understanding that the things I most wanted to protect him from were the ones no choice of mine could touch — and talking with countless other women who knew that feeling too.
The interview is up now, with the thermal work and some behind-the-scenes from Iraq, Germany, Palau and Australia. Link in bio. The full story, written by @annalouiesussman, is in the October magazine.
This is one chapter of Natura, the long-term project I’ve been making with the support of @insidenatgeo, on what it means to carry and care for life in a world that’s being transformed around us.
05 Oct 2026
Pleased to share that the @viifoundation book, USA 3.0, won first place in the International Photography Awards @iphotoawards! Honored to be a part of this book and grateful to the jury for recognizing how vital photojournalism remains amid this fractured moment.
Here, Ruby was 19 when she became pregnant, and knew she wasn’t ready. She was able to make that choice with her mom by her side — a choice that, just months later, would no longer exist in Oklahoma. Today she’s engaged, hoping to start a family when the time is right.
22 Sep 2026
Anna Conway was 39 weeks pregnant when I made this thermal image in Sydney, Australia. She gave birth the next day! I’m so grateful she shared the last hours of her pregnancy with us.
The warmest surfaces read yellow, cooling through orange to red, violet, and blue. Pregnancy raises heat production by 30–35%: progesterone, a shifted metabolism, and the work of shedding a fetus’s warmth along with her own.
So what is a warming world doing to pregnancy? My @natgeo story with @annalouisuss is online now and in the October issue. Huge thanks to @masonhubers for working with me in Sydney — a master of lighting, problem-solving, and being a great human. Link in bio.
28 Aug 2026
The story is up, finally, on @natgeo!
I’ve spent the past year reporting on what a warming world is doing to pregnancy, a question science is only beginning to answer, and one that millions of women are already living inside.
This is Ursela Salvador with her son Manasseh, at home in Ngriil, Palau. After five years of trying, she had given up on becoming a mother. Palau holds the grim distinction of having the world’s highest number of pregnancy heat-risk days, nearly all of them attributable to climate change. Ursela spent the final months of her pregnancy in a darkened room with the AC on high. Manasseh came anyway, more than a month early, and spent his first four weeks in the NICU using a CPAP device to breathe. He's one now, and strong. “I want another baby,” she says. “But I’m scared.”
Ursela's story is part of Natura, my long-term project following women on five continents at the collision of motherhood and environmental change. With this project I ask what it means to carry life in a world on fire? The science of heat and pregnancy is new. The reckoning isn't. To mother has always meant facing the world as it is, and the world as it must become.
With awe and thanks to @annalouiesuss for telling these women's stories with such brilliance and heart, and to editors @afarrar and @minutaglio for championing this piece at @natgeo (coming to the print magazine this October!). And endless gratitude, always, to @natgeosociety and @climatepledge for making this work possible.
Link in my bio to the story, please read and share!
21 Aug 2026
So pleased this image is part of Personal Perspectives: 50 Photographs for 50 Years of Leica Galleries, on view at the Leica Gallery Wetzlar through September 20th, before traveling globally.
In Natura, I explore what it means to be a parent — or not — in a warming world. This photograph holds the question I haven’t been able to escape in my own life: what does it mean to bring a child into a world being transformed in unprecedented ways? In Kamila’s daughter playing on the bow of that boat, framed by the glow of Iraq’s oil fields over waters that once cradled the earliest human civilizations, I saw that tension made visible: innocence and inheritance, beauty and loss, the ancient and the imperiled.
To hang alongside this community of seers — Werner Bischof, Barbara Klemm, Rania Matar, Yael Martínez, Alex Webb, @mhammed_kilito , and so many others whose work has shaped how I understand this medium — is a deep honor. Fifty years of Leica Galleries @leica_camera @leica_camera_deutschland insisting that photography be not only seen, but felt. Grateful to be a small part of that story. And, always, thank you to @natgeosociety for making this work possible.
🔗 Link in bio to view the full exhibition
📍 Leica Gallery Wetzlar, through 20 September 2026
08 Jul 2026
Last week to experience The Nature of Hope: The World Jane Goodall Inspired print sale!
Thrilled my image of a sandstorm—or haboob, in Sudanese Arabic—as it rolls across the Meroë pyramids in Sudan is included in this remarkable collection. Most of the 41 tombs here belong to the royals of the powerful Kingdom of Kush (900 B.C. to A.D. 400), which ruled large parts of the middle Nile Valley. When this image was made, Sudan was a different country. Since war erupted in April 2023, the conflict has shattered lives and placed the nation’s extraordinary cultural heritage in grave peril with museums looted, archaeological sites left unguarded, and millennia-old treasures scattered or destroyed. Meroë still stands, for now, but the storms gathering around Sudan’s ancient places are no longer only made of sand.
Over the past weeks, this collection has brought together a global community of photographers who believe in the power of storytelling to inspire action. It has been a celebration of the natural world, of resilience, and of the extraordinary impact one person can have.
Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE has spent her life showing us that hope is not found in looking away from challenges, but in choosing to engage with them. The photographs in this collection reflect that spirit. They are stories of wonder, coexistence, courage, and possibility.
As we enter the final days of the sale, we invite you to take a moment to explore the collection. Every print purchased helps support Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots program and the Vital Impacts Fellowships, investing in the next generation of environmental leaders and visual storytellers working to create meaningful change around the world.
Thank you for being part of this journey and for all your support! Please share with your friends.
🔗 Link in bio
24 Jun 2026
We won. Unraveling the Mysteries of the Congo Basin took the Print Award at the @oneworldmedia Awards, and I’m so grateful.
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This story exists because of @melaniegouby, dear friend and brilliant reporter, with whom a shared curiosity has turned into years of work in the forests of Central Africa. There is nothing better than making something you believe in together. As she said in the acceptance speech, receiving this award, at this moment for DRC, is especially meaningful. I’m grateful we were awarded for a story that isn’t about war and suffering, but celebrates the growth, the blooming, the quiet change.
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And it exists, above all, because of Emmanuel Kasongo Yakusu, Corneille Ewango, Fabrice Kimbesa, Michel Atianga Bongombe, and the generation of Congolese scientists transforming what the world knows about its second-largest rainforest. You let us into your world, your questions, your decades of patient looking.
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Thank you to @insidenatgeo for the trust, @natgeo, @afarrar, @claire.manibog, @briggsinspace and @dominiqueanneh for championing this piece, and to @oneworldmedia for honoring stories that ask us to look closely.
19 Jun 2026
What does it mean to carry life in a world on fire?
That question, one I've carried for years, stopped being abstract once I became a mother myself. Natura, the long-term project I've been making about motherhood, reproductive choice, and climate change, is no longer something I observe from the outside.
Photography, for me, has always been about bearing witness to what words alone cannot hold, and this work has asked more of that than anything I have made before. The response it generates, in students, in audiences, in the women who have trusted me with their most intimate moments, confirms that these questions live in people's private lives, waiting for a space to surface.
Through Natura I'm documenting the quiet, often unspoken ways women are navigating ecological change: decisions around pregnancy and parenthood, the realities of raising families in places already being reshaped by climate impacts.
With gratitude to @insidenatgeo's Global Storytellers Fund and @theclimatepledge for supporting this work, and to every mother who has let me into her story.
Happy Mother's Day, in all the forms it takes — those who carry, those who chose not to, those who lost, those who tend something into being.
10 May 2026
What does it mean to carry life in a world on fire?
For National Geographic Explorer and photographer @nicholesobecki, that question became deeply personal while creating Natura, a long-term project exploring motherhood, reproductive choice, and climate change.
Becoming a mother during the project transformed her relationship to the work:
“The work is no longer something I observe from the outside. Photography, for me, has always been about bearing witness to what words alone cannot hold, and this project has asked more of that than anything I have previously made. The response it generates, in students, in audiences, in the women who trusted me with their most intimate moments, confirms that these questions live in people's private lives, waiting for a space to surface.”
Through Natura, Nichole documents the intimate, often unspoken ways women navigate ecological change, from decisions around pregnancy and parenthood to the realities of raising families in places already being reshaped by climate impacts.
Supported by The Climate Pledge and @insidenatgeo’s Global Storytellers Fund, her work reflects the power of storytelling to surface deeply human experiences behind the climate crisis.
Happy Mother’s Day.
Link in bio to explore more of Nichole’s work.
10 May 2026
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