• Bruce Farnsworth, PhD
• bruce@brucefarnsworth.com

  Based in Ecuador & California

• Editorial | Documentary | Fine Art
• Bio-Cultural Studies | Climate | Wildlife

Feature & Assignment Credits:

• National Geographic magazine
• Smithsonian magazine
• TRAFFIC.org Trade in Wild Species
• Outdoor Photographer magazine
• Conde Nast magazine
• The Nature Conservancy magazine
• U.S. National Park Service publications
• California Academy of Sciences
• Harvard's ReVista magazine
• Living Bird magazine

• EDUCATION

• PhD, Educational Research

• MA, Environmental Studies

  BS, Zoology

ARTIST STATEMENT

As a documentary and conservation photographer, I'm expanding my work to illustrate and interpret important new visual stories in the Upper Amazon Basin.

Graduate studies and extensive fieldwork in Ecuador and the U.S. Northern Plains have led me on wonderful paths of acculturation and learning in rural communities that seek justice for Earth, Sky and Water.

With over 20 years professional experience in the upper Amazon basin, I am proud to maintain formal working relationships with Indigenous communities, scientists, government agencies and NGO's. In the Amazon basin, I’m skilled at working in remote settings and embedding with multi-agency conservation teams to make important images.

I am supporting local conservation and government agencies in Ecuador and Colombia via photography and training, such as collection of photographic evidence, drone & camera trap photography, CITES species identification and human-wildlife conflict reduction.

Wherever I work, I strive to give back to my host communities while creating a diversity of images that interpret ecological significance and promote the local, cultural and generational values of a place.