“It’s a matter of life and death.”
That’s what Joel Sartore told me a few days ago when I asked him what gives him the motivation to keep on photographing for National Geographic—one the most difficult photographic careers to pursue, and certainly not the romantic job most non-photographers tend to think it is.
Sartore’s “life and death” comment referred to his intense drive to record and help save endangered species. “We are looking at losing fifty percent of the world’s amphibians in the next ten years,” Sartore explained. “That’s pretty scary. If it can happen other species, it can happen ours.”
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