
Credit: Pablo Shiguango
- 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
- 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.
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 support international NGO campaigns in the Amazon region, train government agencies in CITES species ID and photography (drone, camera trap and investigation), and I provide community education to reduce human-wildlife conflicts.
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.