STEVE WINTER

My first camera was a gift from my father on my seventh birthday. Over the next years, he taught me the basics of photography. After graduating from the Academy of Art and University of San Francisco, I signed on as a photojournalist for Black Star Photo Agency. Since then, I have produced stories for GEO, Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Natural History, Audubon, Business Week, Scientific American, and Stern, among other publications. My non-profit and commercial clients include UNICEF, Merck Pharmaceuticals, Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation, and others. In 1991, I began shooting for the National Geographic Society, where I have been a contract photographer for National Geographic magazine since 1995.

I am fascinated by people and culture, and have a great love for the natural world. I have produced stories on everything from an AIDS hospice for children in Haiti, volcanoes in Iceland, jaguars, and the natural history of Cuba, nanotechnology and Mother Theresa's Home for Children, to life along Myanmar's Irrawaddy River. My work has taken me around the globe, sometimes to remote and physically challenging destinations. I feel very fortunate to have realized my dream. - Steve Winter

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