ABOUT THE RESPONSIBLE PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTIVE
The responsible photography collective was conceived of by Lori A. Cash and Angela “Angie” Maloney in June 2022. Both of them are lifelong outdoors enthusiasts with decades long histories in photography. Both of them have observed that, as digital photography and cell phones have made photography more and more accessible, enthusiasm for photography has increased dramatically. But that same enthusiasm leads people to do things that they probably should not.
Both Lori and Angie are convinced that most people are well-intentioned. Unfortunately, that doesn’t reduce the harm that is done. The responsible photography collective is their effort to provide food for thought, discussion, resources, and ideas to help people understand and mitigate the consequences of what can happen when they go for that perfect shot.
ABOUT LORI A CASH
Lori A. Cash is an award-winning conservation photographer and storyteller who has over 30 years of experience in the photography world. She lives in Virginia and has a main focus of photographing the biodiversity of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Lori’s passion is photographing our natural world as she sees it without changing the natural worldly environment. This passion for leaving no trace on our natural world while using responsible photography is also an extremely important mission for Lori, helping other photographers strategically maintain and protect our natural world and wildlife so that, as photographers, we do not lose sight of our responsibility to take care of the environment in which we photograph.
Lori hopes to share tips and her knowledge about being a responsible photographer and how to take care of our environment and wildlife while out capturing the beauty of our natural world. She is a co-founder of The Responsible Photography Collective.
Connect and follow Lori on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn or via lacphoto@outlook.com. Her website is www.loriacash.com.
About Angela Maloney
Angela “Angie” Maloney is a fine art photographic artist, speaker, and workshop leader based in Melbourne and the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. Her work has been written about, published, and exhibited in Australia, the U.S. and Europe. She focuses largely on black and white and what she calls “bent” photography depicting the world around her, increasingly in ways that depart from literal recreation of scenes. Her photography is an act of exploring the world and reflection on the ways that the places a person goes can change the person. She has lived in enough places that her accent often confuses people and where she’s from is a hard question to answer. Different towns, states, and countries can be the right answer depending on the context of the question. But her real home, and the best answer, is in Victoria, Australia.
Angie formerly served as the ambassador coordinator for North America for Nature First, a global non-profit that advocated for responsible nature photography practices. She is the coordinator for the Joyce Evans Circle, a women’s exhibiting and publishing photography collective located in Melbourne, and frequently collaborates with the Magnet Galleries, also in Melbourne. She is the gallery coordinator for the Arc Yinnar, located in Yinnar, Victoria. Currently, she is most interested in exhibition and speaking opportunities throughout Australia. She is a co-founder of The Responsible Photography Collective.
View her work on Instagram, Facebook, or on her website at www.theplacechangesme.com.
Alyce Bender is a nature photographer, writer, educator, and adventurer. Camera in hand since childhood, her fascination for photography developed into a career after serving in the U.S. Air Force. Her passion for wildlife and the natural environment compels her to connect others with nature through sharing both visual art and in-field experiences that promote conservation, creativity, and ethical photography.
She is a Tamron USA Ambassador, contributing writer for the Journal of Wildlife Photography, and her work has been featured in group and solo gallery shows across the US as well as in international publications from the UK to Japan. Bender leads photography adventures around the world to photographers of all levels explore and expand their personal vision and naturalist skills ethically. When not in the field, she offers a variety of educational programs both in person and virtually for photography organizations large and small.
You can see more of Bender’s work at www.abenderphotography.com.
About Alyce Bender
ABOUT JENNIFER LEIGH WARNER
Jennifer Leigh Warner is a fine art conservation wildlife photographer, writer, public speaker and workshop leader living in Central Texas and specializes in creating meaningful images that conveys a message of hope for the natural world. Jennifer feels strongly that by sharing these images of beautiful animals in their natural environment, she can inspire those around her to preserve the world that we share with all living creatures.
Jennifer was elected to the North America Nature Photography Association Board of Directors in 2023 and has been serving as the Chair of the Ethics Committee since 2018. She is also a certified Texas Master Naturalist, an Ambassador for Nature First and a mentor for the non-profit Girls Who Click, which encourages young girls to consider a career in conservation photography.
Jennifer works closely with conservation organizations to help support their missions to protect wildlife and the world around us. She believes that photography is a powerful tool to share these stores, educate photo viewers on important topics and inspire change.
Jennifer’s work has been published in Outdoor California, Gizmodo, the NANPA Expressions Magazine, Outdoor Photographer Magazine, WIRED, The New Yorker, National Geographic Online and Wild Planet Photo Magazine among others.
You can learn more about Jennifer and the conservation work that she does by visiting her website at www.experiencewildlife.com.
ABOUT HEATHER VALEY
Heather Valey is an award-winning conservation photographer and multimedia creator living in the Colorado front range. She specializes in creating purposeful content that puts a spotlight on human interactions with wildlife and environment emphasizing co-existence.
She recently finished her grad studies in Conservation Communication at Colorado State University. Additionally, she is a member of the North America Nature Photography Association (NANPA) and a certified Texas Master Naturalist.
Heather's images have been published in National Wildlife Magazine, PetaPixel, Colorado Outdoors Magazine, and the Purple Martin Update to name a few.
In addition to photography, she is a skilled audio & video editor that has worked on a multitude of podcast episodes for Rewildology and TikTok content for the Prairie Dogs 101 group.
You can check out Heather's work on her websites at www.heathervaley.net or https://naturefixcolorado.substack.com/. Follow her on Instagram at www.instagram.com/heather_valey.