Videos
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Mark Sowa: An Evening with NASA: Space Exploration Through the Shutter
Mark Sowa discusses the wide range of multimedia products produced by his team at NASA that not only record humankind's efforts in space exploration, but also inspire the public.
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Sebastian Copeland: From Pole to Pole—The Longest Journey
Sebastian Copeland discusses his most memorable trips — including attacks from polar bears, falling through the ice in the winter and shooting in freezing weather — and the fragile co-dependence between humans and the ice world.
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William Albert Allard: Five Decades
William Albert Allard talks about his 50-year association with National Geographic and his work with some of America’s subcultures, such as cowboys and the Hutterites.
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Liz O. Baylen: Finding Their Voices
Liz O. Baylen discusses the varied roles of a Los Angeles Times photojournalist, ranging from a Hollywood celebrity portrait photographer one moment to a dedicated documentarian of social issues the next.
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Ed Kashi: It’s Personal
Ed Kashi discusses his innovative approach to photography and filmmaking, as well as his projects the Iraqi Kurdistan Flipbook and Aging in America: The Years Ahead.
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Kevin Hand: Alien Oceans
Dr. Kevin Hand provides a firsthand report on the ongoing search for life on other worlds, discussing how the exploration of Earth’s ocean helps to inform our understanding of the potential habitability of worlds like Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons.
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Joe McNally: A Life Behind the Lens
Joe McNally discusses the trials and tribulations of his photography career, the problems and personalities he dealt with and the overriding sense of humor that gets him through the day.
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Mike Yamashita: Elusive Paradise: Michael Yamashita’s Shangri-La (along the tea road to Lhasa)
Mike Yamashita discusses his photographs that embody both the rich Tibetan culture and the rapidly changing face of the area since the Chinese invasion in 1950.
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James Balog: The Art & Science of Chasing Ice
James Balog provides a fascinating exploration of humanity's relationship with nature and a profound understanding of how climate change is affecting our planet.
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David Doubilet: BELOW
David Doubilet journeys through his most recent and favorite National Geographic assignments.
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Abelardo Morell: The Universe Next Door
Abelardo Morell discusses his early photography and how it has influenced and informed his more recent images, involving principles of optics and time in the Camera Obscura and Tent/Camera work.
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Maggie Steber: Dancing on Fire: Photographs from Haiti
Maggie Steber discusses her 30 years of work in Haiti, taking viewers through the Shakespearean epic that describes a small country that thinks of itself as the biggest in the world.