Meet the Regular Contributors Behind the Responsible Photography Collective
May 31, 2024 Written by Lori A Cash
In December 2022, the Responsible Photography Collective (RPC) went live with three main regular contributors, Angela Maloney, Lori A Cash and Alyce Bender. We began this website and blog to help provide resources for other photographers and to advocate for responsible and ethical photography practices in the field. Recently, we have gained two new regular contributors, Jennifer Leigh Warner and Heather Valey. In addition, we have a couple of guest contributors. Therefore, I thought this month I would share a little information on each of the regular contributors here at RPC.
Angela and Lori conceived the idea of creating the Responsible Photography Collective and put the website together. We felt that responsible photography is a very important topic whether you are a casual cell phone picture taker or a professional photographer. We wanted to be a place for resources, discussions, and most importantly, advocacy for responsible photography practices in ways that do no harm to people, animals, and places that make up our world.
Angela “Angie” Maloney is an artistic photographer who primarily focuses on the areas of wildlife, nature, macro, street, conservation, and travel photography. Her work has been written about and published in the U.S. and Europe. Angie has been an exhibiting artist member of the Washington Printmakers Gallery. Her work as a fine art photographer is shown in regular monthly member shows. In addition, she taught photography classes at the gallery. To see more of Angie’s work, check out her website.
Lori A Cash is a wildlife and nature conservation photographer with a primary 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. She is a conservation storyteller with her images and writings being published in numerous publications over her 30-plus years in the photography world. For more of Lori’s work, visit her website at www.loriacash.com.
Alyce Bender is a nature photographer, writer, educator, and adventurer. 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. She currently leads photo adventures and workshops through A. Bender Photography LLC, Wildside Nature Tours, and Women in Wildlife Photography. You can see more of Bender’s work at www.abenderphotography.com.
Jennifer Leigh Warner is a fine art conservation wildlife photographer, writer, public speaker, and workshop leader. She specializes in creating meaningful images that convey a message of hope for the natural world. 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. You can learn more about Jennifer and the conservation work that she does by visiting her website at www.experiencewildlife.com.
Heather Valey is 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. In addition to photography, Heather 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/.
All our regular contributors have many years of experience in a variety of genres including nature photography, street photography, landscape photography, wildlife photography, conservation photography, and in multimedia creation. Responsible photography is about practicing photography in ways that we respect our world and all the creatures in it. We are here to share our knowledge and experiences through our resource page and through our blog.
With RPC we want to connect with photographers of all types of genres of photography. So, we are still seeking photographers in all genres of photography such as modeling, portraits, wedding, sports, nature, or journalism to become regular or guest contributors. So, if you are interested in joining the Responsible Photography Collective as a regular or guest contributor, please email us at responsiblephoto@outlook.com.
