• 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.