Photographer

<p>A top adventure athlete known for capturing extraordinary imagery while climbing and skiing in high-risk environments, Jimmy Chin shares lessons in leadership, teamwork, risk management and preparation, along with thrilling anecdotes from his incredible journeys. </p><p>Jimmy Chin is a professional mountain athlete, <em>National Geographic</em> photographer, Academy Award-winning film director, and <em>New York Times</em>-bestselling author.

<p>Joel Sartore is a photographer, speaker, author, teacher, conservationist, <i>National Geographic Fellow,</i> and a regular contributor to National Geographic Magazine. </p><p>Joel specializes in documenting endangered species and landscapes in order to show a world worth saving. He is the founder of The Photo Ark, a multi-year documentary project to save species and habitat.  </p><p>In his words, “It is folly to think that we can destroy one species and ecosystem after another and not affect humanity.

<p>Dewitt Jones is one of America's top professional photographers with a career stretching over twenty years.</p><p>As a motion picture director, he had two documentary films nominated for Academy Awards (Climb - Best Live Action Short Film and John Muir's High Sierra - Best Short Subject Documentary) before he was thirty.</p><p>Turning to advertising, Jones rose to the forefront of corporate creative marketing photographing national advertising campaigns for Dewar's Scotch, Canon, and United Airlines.</p><p>He has published nine boo

<p>Brandon Stanton shares his journey of personal growth and discovery, and uncovers the stories behind the stories featured on <i>Humans of New York</i>, powerfully illustrating the value of sharing your experiences. </p><p>As the founder of the street portrait blog, <i>Humans of New York</i>, Brandon has emerged as a worldwide Internet phenomenon and one of today’s most influential storytellers.

<p>For 40 years, photographer James Balog has broken new conceptual and artistic ground on one of the most important issues of our era: human modification of our planet’s natural systems. An avid mountaineer with a graduate degree in geography and geomorphology, James is equally at home on a Himalayan peak or a whitewater river, the African savannah or polar icecaps.</p><p>To reveal the impact of climate change, James founded the Extreme Ice Survey (EIS), the most wide-ranging, ground-based, photographic study of glaciers ever conducted.