This Amazing Archive of Animal Photography Reveals 18,000 Species and Counting. Here's How Joel Sartore Built His 'Photo Ark'
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The naked mole-rat was first. On August 9, 2006, at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo in Nebraska, Joel Sartore focused his camera on the little rodent with big front teeth and snapped pictures.
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The naked mole-rat was first. On August 9, 2006, at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo in Nebraska, Joel Sartore focused his camera on the little rodent with big front teeth and snapped pictures. As a longtime field photographer for National Geographic magazine, Sartore had always been interested in the natural world and cared about its creatures, big and small. But those photographs of the mole-rat sent him in a new direction: It was the inaugural species of Sartore’s Photo Ark project documenting the variety and charisma of the planet’s animal species.
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This Amazing Archive of Animal Photography Reveals 18,000 Species and Counting. Here's How Joel Sartore Built His 'Photo Ark'
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