Jared Lloyd is a fine-art wildlife photographer and environmental journalist with more than 20 years of professional experience working in some of the world's most demanding environments.
His photographs have appeared in National Geographic, BBC Wildlife, World Wildlife Magazine, The New York Times, Audubon, National Wildlife, and hundreds of other print and digital publications worldwide. His work has also been featured by conservation organizations, including the World Wildlife Fund and The Nature Conservancy, and institutions ranging from Harvard University and the Pulitzer Center.
Lloyd's fine-art photography is held in private, corporate, and institutional collections on every habitable continent. His large-format photographic works have been acquired for private residences, corporate spaces, and natural history institutions.
At the heart of Jared’s work is wildlife conservation. He believes that through photography, we can evoke a sense of awe and wonder that only the poets manage to do with words to reconnect people with the natural world. Across his career, he has had the honor to work alongside pinniped biologists, shark researchers, and scientists from institutions including Duke University, the Smithsonian, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on conservation projects.
Jared Lloyd also works with documentary filmmakers and natural history production teams, such as the BBC Natural History Unit which includes work on the three part documentary Atlantic: The Wildest Ocean on Earth. He has collaborated with National Geographic production crews, contributed to projects broadcast on PBS, and co-hosted seven episodes of the PBS series Wild Photo Adventures.
An accomplished environmental journalist, Lloyd has published more than 200 articles in magazines and news outlets around the world and has received eight national press awards for his science and nature writing.
Jared Lloyd also publishes PhotoWILD Magazine and is the original founder of the Journal of Wildlife Photography. His published books on photography include Light: The Essence of Wildlife Photography, The Photographer's Guide to the Outer Banks, Mastering Exposure: Rethinking the Fundamentals of Wildlife Photography, and You Can't Photograph What You Can't Find: Case Studies in Fieldcraft.