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Gerry Ellis (born December 25, 1956) is an environmental photojournalist and writer based in Portland, Oregon USA. During his 35-year career, the American-born photographer/conservationist has been bridging the gap between photojournalism and wildlife photography. His images were widely disseminated by magazines like XXX and XXX. In addition to his prolific coverage of conservation hotspots around the globe, Ellis was an early innovator in use of web-based children's education about the global environment with his founding of the NGO GLOBIO. He served as president and director of GLOBIO. His book The Outdoor Traveler’s Guide to Australia (1987) was first international color guidebook on national parks and wildlife.

Style and Influences
Ellis work and passion for story-telling has been greatly inspired after study under master photographer Ernst Haas at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center near Aspen, Colorado. After the workshop in 1982 Ellis spent the following days with Hass as the two discussed design and photography. Ellis has said, “From Ernst I learned how to wake each day with the passion to say something new, photography was just the visual voice.” Those conversations, many centering around Ernst’s best-selling The Creation became the inspiration for Elli’s pursuit of long-form story-telling.

Minden Pictures
After closing down his own photo agency in 1998 Ellis was invited by Larry Minden to join Minden Pictures. Upon reviewing his work, Larry Minden invited Ellis to join the international photographic agency Minden Pictures, then expanding beyond its core. [5] National Geographic photographers Frans Lanting, Jim Brandenburg, and Nick Nickols were already members. [9]

Australia & Papua New Guinea
After carrying out assignments in the Pacific Northwest and work for campaigns at Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo Ellis left the United States for Australia. The initial one year trip evolved into a nearly four-year stay as Ellis made a complete documentation of the national parks of the country. Much of the four years of work appeared in the book The Outdoor Travelers Guide to Australia, the first full-color international travelers guide.

While living in Australia Ellis began making regular travels into neighboring Papua New Guinea. There he encountered the Huli people, often known as the Wigmen. Photographing the people and culture of the Huli inspired regular visits to the Tagali Valley region in the Southern Highlands. Photographic work of the Huli was some of the most widely seen of Ellis’ early career, appearing in magazines as wide ranging as Ranger Rick (children) and Scientific America.

Wild Orphans
In late 1999, Ellis left once again for East Africa with the focus a final book project dedicated to African elephant conservation and conflict issues. The next three years were spent in and around the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust orphanage near Nairobi, Kenya. There Ellis was granted unprecedented access to document the rescue and rehabilitation of orphaned baby African elephants and black rhinoceros. The experience resulted in Wild Orphans, the 2002 book by Welcome Enterprises publishing. Ellis was both photographer and writer of the work which traces the journey of eight orphaned baby elephants from rescue through rehab, to release in Tsavo (East) National Park.

In 2016 the central elephant character in Wild Orphans was introduced to children in a new book NATUMI Takes the Lead by National Geographic books.

Great Apes 2020
A year after assignment photography documenting the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico for National Audubon Society Ellis returned his focus to a photographic project originally begun in 1989 while filming chimpanzees with primatologist Jane Goodall at Gombe Stream in Tanzania, the survival of great apes in the wild: photography from that early work was published widely including Dr Goodall’s 30th anniversary book Through a Window.

GLOBIO
In early 2001 Ellis created and founded GLOBIO®, originally the Global Biodiversity Education Foundation for Children, evolving out of his experiences watching children in Kenya encountering orphaned African elephants. The foundation focuses the majority of its energy on developing a free, child-specific, child-friendly online encyclopedia called GLOSSOPEDIA® and the interactive wildlife puppet line WebWilds® in partnership with award-winning puppet maker Folkmanis.

Selected awards & recognitions
• Wildlife Photographer of the Year - Composition and Form, 1995

• Nature’s Best Photography, 1996

• Visa Pour L’image, 2001

• Rainforest Alliance 10th Anniversary Ally Award, 1996

http://www.nanpa.org/info/awards/

External Sources
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiEn_EbQYD8 - CBS clip: America's Rainforest, April, 19th 1992

http://www.opb.org/television/programs/ofg/segment/gerry-ellis-nature-photographer/

http://www.opb.org/artsandlife/article/slideshow-gerry-ellis-great-ape-diaries/

http://prophotosupply.com/newsdesk/2013/07/meet-local-visionary-gerry-ellis/

http://greatapes2020.globio.org/the-project/about-gerry-ellis/

http://www.mindenpictures.com/gallery/photographer-portfolios/1056/1323/654/gerry-ellis.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpSwfDr-6aA

http://www.pennlive.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2015/05/why_save_gorillas.html

http://www.nj.com/indulge/index.ssf/2014/11/philadelphia_zoo_continues_conservation_effort_announces_year_of_the_gorilla.html

https://www.worldcat.org/title/natumi-takes-the-lead-the-true-story-of-an-orphan-elephant-who-finds-family/oclc/939994724&referer=brief_results

https://www.nwf.org/News-and-Magazines/National-Wildlife/Animals/Archives/2005/Making-Progress-With-Pandas.aspx

http://www.photomediaonline.com/blogs/people-in-the-industry/itemlist/tag/Gerry%20Ellis.html

http://www.photomediaonline.com/blogs/people-in-the-industry/item/1314-gerry-ellis-guest-hosts-wild-things-tv-program.html?tmpl=component&print=1

Newspaper Source: The Oregonian: Gerry Ellis: Focus On Nature, profile piece on Gerry Ellis, February 11, 1993

Magazine Covers/Articles:

'''Cover?? - 100 Photographs For Press Freedom — 2009 Reporters Without Borders publication, ISBN: 978-2-915536-81-2'''

BBC Wildlife: cover/article — Positive Thinking: Dr Goodall’s chimpanzee method Vol. 8 No. 7 July 1990

National Geographic World: cover, May 1991

Terre Sauvage: cover, No 66 1993

TIME for Kids; cover, October 2, 1998, Vol 4, No. 4

National Geographic World, cover, February 1991

Buzzworm: cover, May/June 1991

Books:

Primates in Question: Photographs Ellis, Gerry/Authors Shumaker, Robert, Beck, Benjamin, Smithsonian Books, ISBN 1-58834- 151-8

GORILLAS: Photography Ellis, Gerry/ Author Goodwin, Sara; Mallard Press, 1990, ISBN 0-792- 45259-3

The Outdoor Traverler’s Guide to AUSTRALIA: Photographer/Author Ellis, Gerry, Stewart, Tabori &amp;amp; Chang 1987, ISBN 1-55670- 019-9

Through A Window: cover photo; ISBN 0-297- 81117-7; Houghton Mifflin 1990

Chimpanzees: Photography Ellis, Gerry/ Author Kane, Karen, ISBN 0-8225-2418-2, Lerner Publications 2000

Mountain Gorillas: Photography Ellis, Gerry/ Author Kane, Karen, ISBN 0-8225-3040- 6, Lerner Publications 2005

Chimpanzee Culture: cover photo; Harvard University Press 1994, ISBN 0-674-11662- 3 &amp;amp; ISBN 0-674- 11662-1

African Elephants: Photography Ellis, Gerry/ Author Smith, Roland, ISBN 9-780-82253- 006-0, Lerner Publications 1995

Wild Orphans: Photographer/Author Ellis, Gerry, ISBN 0-941- 80758-4, Welcome Enterprises 2002

America’s Rainforest: Photographer &amp;amp; Author Ellis, Gerry/ Author Kane, Karen, ISBN 1-559- 71129-9, Northword Press, 1993

NATUMI Takes the Lead: Photography and Text Ellis, Gerry, ISBN 978-1-4263-2561- 8 National Geographic Books 2016

RHINO at the brink of extinction: cover/principal photography/ Author Merz, Anna, ISBN 0-00- 219920-3 Harper Collins 1991