Vital Impacts is a non-profit founded by the award-winning photographer Ami Vitale and the visual journalist Eileen Mignoni. This women-led initiative aims to raise $1 million dollars to support those protecting endangered habitats: Big Life Foundation, Jane Goodall Institute's Roots and Shoots program, Great Plains Conservation's Project Ranger and SeaLegacy. Your generous purchase of Vital Impact’s fine art prints directly supports grassroots organizations across the globe, who work tirelessly to sustain our planet. Every contribution, regardless of size, aids their critical work. 40% of net-proceeds will be given directly to the photographers to allow them to continue their critical awareness-raising conservation work. The sale ends Jan. 17, 2022.
Acacia Johnson1/16Acacia Johnson is a photographer from Alaska whose work often explores human relationships to the natural world. Learn more about Acacia Johnson.
Ami Vitale2/16Ye Ye, a 16-year-old giant panda, lounges in a wild enclosure at a conservation center in Wolong Nature Reserve. Her name, whose characters represent Japan and China, celebrates the friendship between the two nations. Ye Ye’s cub Hua Yan (Pretty Girl) is being trained for release into the wild.
By breeding and releasing pandas, augmenting existing populations, and protecting habitat, China is on its way to successfully saving their most famous ambassador, and in the process, putting the wild back into an icon.
National Geographic Magazine photographer and filmmaker Ami Vitale has traveled to more than 100 countries, bearing witness not only to violence and conflict, but also to surreal beauty and the enduring power of the human spirit.
Anand Varma3/16Scientists use tiny water droplets created by ultrasonic foggers to visualize the airflow around the wing of an Anna's hummingbird, scientific name: Calypte anna, in flight. This is a recreation of an experiment conducted by post doctoral researcher Victor Ortega Jimenez of the Dudley Lab at the University of California, Berkeley. Photographed in the Clark Lab at University of California, Riverside. Anand Varma is a National Geographic Explorer and award-winning photographer based in Berkeley, CA. Learn more about Anand Varma.
Beth Moon4/16Odin’s Cove #9, edition of 3. Print size 16” x 20” on 20” x 26” paper (hand coated platinum and palladium metals on cotton water color paper). Odin’s Cove is about a sense of place. It is a celebration of the beauty of nature in a visually stimulating landscape where untamed bramble and ivy suggest ancient origins. Where a regenerative view of the earth can be found, in the lush cliffs that gently slope to the sea, where music can be heard in the beating of a raven’s wing. This project evolved from a series of trips to a very special part of the California coastline where I developed what I can only call a friendship with a pair of ravens. Over a three-year period I made many trips to this unique area and as my relationship with the ravens grew – they taught me many things about their lives and personalities. Part pirate, part prophet, makers of magic and mischief, their throaty calls can be heard echoing through these hills. This series portrays their trust in me, their loyalty to each other, the territory they rule, and their life in the wild. Since 1999, Beth Moon’s work has appeared in more than eighty solo and group exhibitions worldwide, receiving critical acclaim in major fine art publications internationally. Learn more about Beth Moon.
Charlie Hamilton5/16An inquisitive otter stops to address the camera, while she fishes a kelp bed in the sea off Shetland, UK. Charlie Hamilton James is a National Geographic Magazine photographer. Learn more about Charlie Hamilton James.
Chiara Goia6/16The frozen surface of Khövsgöl Lake, Mongolia. Khövsgöl is the largest freshwater lake in Mongolia, and in winter, its surface freezes up to 120 cm. Freezing rapidly, creates crystal clear ice. Chiara Goia is a photographer whose work is spanning from documentary editorial to commercial, while always keeping focus on her personal work and artistic research. Learn more about Chiara Goia.
Clement Kiragu7/16500px Photo ID: 124883591 - The Calm before the storm at the mara river. All engines switched off and all you can hear is the high tension of the animals about to cross one of the most dangerous crossing places at the Mara River. Everything about the migration is extremely amazing, magical!The Calm before the storm at the Mara River. All engines switched off and all you can hear is the high tension of the animals about to cross one of the most dangerous crossing places at the Mara River. Everything about the migration is extremely amazing, magical. Clement Kiragu is an Award-Winning Wildlife Photographer and Canon Ambassador from Kenya. Learn more about Clement Kiragu.
James Balog8/16The Old Man And the Ape, California, USA, 1992.Page 7 from “The Human Element” by James Balog. Rizzoli International, New York, 2021.18 inches x 18 inches on 20 x 24 inch paper. This limited edition fine-art print will be number #35 of 50. For nearly 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 nature. Learn more about James Balog.
