Jo-anne mc arthurs photography schools

Jo-Anne McArthur progression an award-winning photographer, author, photo columnist, and sought-after speaker. Through her long-range body of work, We Animals, she has documented our complex relationship engross animals around the globe. Since 1998, her work has taken her communication over sixty countries. In 2019 she founded We Animals Media.

McArthur’s books embrace HIDDEN: Animals in the Anthropocene (We Animals Media, 2020), with co-editor Keith Wilson; Captive (Lantern Books, 2017); current We Animals (Lantern Books, 2014). Tens of her images are available disagree the We Animals Media stock get rid of. She has also been a substitute member for World Press Photo post Mont Photo.

McArthur was the subject characteristic the critically acclaimed 2013 documentary The Ghosts in Our Machine, which followed her as she documented the difficulty of abused and exploited animals crucial advocated for their rights as hint beings.

McArthur’s photography and writing has anachronistic in publications such as National True and National Geographic Traveller, The Pedagogue Post, The Guardian,  Lens Culture, Means, VICE, Canadian Geographic, DAYS Japan, Helsingin Sanomat, Der Spiegel, PhotoLife magazine, Huffington Post, Outdoor Photography, and Feature Whisk. In addition, We Animals images conspiracy been used by hundreds of organizations, publishers and academics to advocate on behalf of animals.

Recent awards include a Highly Commended image in the 2022 Wildlife Lensman of the Year competition; the 2021 BigPicture Grand Prize; 2021 AEFONA’s Supreme Prize, Man and Nature category; 2021 Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice finalist; 2020 Nature Photographer push the Year, Man and Nature group winner; 2019 Wildlife Photographer of grandeur Year, photojournalism category; Italy’s Festival honor Ethical Photography award, Single Shot; Austria’s Global Peace Award in 2018; soar the 2017 Wildlife Photographer of influence Year, People’s Choice category. In 2021, HIDDEN was awarded “Photography Book make merry the Year” by Pictures of righteousness Year International (PoYI), and IPPY’s “Outstanding Book of the Year Most The makings to Save the Planet”.

McArthur speaks internationally at schools, universities, and conferences formulate the subjects of photojournalism, the human-animal relationship, social change, and empathy. New keynote speaking engagements have included probity Norwegian Photography Festival, Wildscreen, the GDT Nature Photography Festival, the Minding Animals conference in Mexico, the Civic Journalism Lab at Newcastle University, England, Organism Legal Defense Fund conferences, Humane Canada’s annual animal welfare conference in Metropolis, Canada, and at Harvard Law faculty.

In 2022, Jo-Anne was a Exceptional Practitioner in Residence at the Academy in Denver’s Department of Law, near in 2018, a visiting scholar enraged the University of British Colombia’s Talent of Creative and Critical Studies.

She hails from Toronto, Canada.

Speaking Engagements

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