a British Biologist and his South African wife, Reneé Bish, have lived in Ecuador, South America since 1985 and 1992 respectively. They work as a professional wildlife and cultural
photographic team and have travelled repeatedly to all continents in search of their images. Their principle drive is conservation and almost everything they do has a strong conservation component. Erring more and more towards marine conservation, Pete, who is a trained marine biologist, feels that ocean ecosystem restoration is one of the most pressing issues in the world today.
Pete’s images have been featured 10 times in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards. He is published in many international magazines including National Geographic, BBC Wildlife, International Wildlife, GEO, Smithsonian, Nature’s Best, Airone, The Geographical, Terre Sauvage and Ranger Rick.
Pete was a Founding Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers (www.ilcp.com), he was awarded Ranger Rick Photographer of the Year and Ecuador’s Photo Journalist of the Year in 2015, in the same year he was a category winner in the Terre Sauvage /IUCN international photographic competition (as well as in 2014) and was recognized by Outdoor Photographer Magazine as among the 40 most influential wildlife photographers in the world. He was a principal speaker at WildSpeak in Washington DC in 2015.
Their current project is a book on Guyana to be launched by the president of the country for Guyana’s 50th celebration of independence. It’s aim is to inspire the Guyanese to learn to love and explore their own country.
www.peteoxford.com
FB: Pete Oxford and Pete Oxford Photography
Pete Oxford,
Their published books so far are:
-Amazon Images – A portfolio of impressions
from the Ecuadorian Amazon
-Chagras
-Ecuador
-Ecuador – Land of frogs
-Spirit of the Huaorani – An Amazon people of
the Yasuni region of Ecuador (Foreword
Trudie Styler & Sting)
-Cunsi Pindo (a story of the Amazonian Harpy
Eagle in Ecuador)
-Galapagos Both Sides of the Coin (Foreword
HRH Prince Philip)
-Galapagos – The Untamed Isles
-A Galapagos Wildlife Guide
-Waorani
-Rupununi Rediscovering a Lost World
(Foreword HRH Prince Charles)
-Yasuni Tiputini and the Web of Life (Foreword
E.O. Wilson)
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