Neil Ever Osborne is a Canadian photographer, filmmaker, and public scholar.

His interdisciplinary projects bear witness to the complex relationship between people and the planet.

More specifically, Osborne’s work examines the converging social and environmental issues that narrate our times in a changing — and warming — world.

In this pursuit, he focuses on humanity’s enduring spirit and nature’s resiliency.

Osborne is an Explorer with the National Geographic Society, a Contributing Photographer with Smithsonian Magazine, and an Assistant Professor at the Trent University School of the Environment. He also holds long-standing Fellowships with the International League of Conservation Photographers, The Explorer’s Club, and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.

• Can Photojournalism Help Save the Planet | Cameras in hand, journalists and photographers are taking action to help the environment.
By Madigan Cotterill in Review of Journalism

• Picture This: Captivating Visuals Close Gap in Climate Change Communication | Dr. Neil Osborne’s unique lens on visual storytelling in taking the climate change conversation beyond the classroom.
By Trent University in News and Events

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• Explorer | National Geographic Society
• Contributing Photographer | Smithsonian Magazine
• Fellow | International League of Conservation Photographers
• Fellow | The Explorer’s Club
• Fellow | Royal Canadian Geographical Society
• Assistant Professor | Trent School of the Environment
• Academic Referee | Environmental Communication

• Assistant | Frans Lanting | National Geographic Magazine
• Assistant | Paul Nicklen | National Geographic Magazine
• Assistant | Cristina Mittermeier | National Geographic Magazine
• Inaugural Photographer-in-Residence | Canadian Geographic Magazine
• Inaugural Climate Change & Sustainability Editor | The Weather Network
• Inaugural Conservation Photography Editor | Canadian Wildlife Magazine
• Alumni | The Eddie Adams Workshop
• Alumni | MediaStorm Workshop
• Ambassador | Nikon Canada
• Ph.D. in Environmental Studies | Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change | York University
• M.A. in Visual Communication | School of Visual Communication | Ohio University
• B.Sc. in Biology (Specialization in Conservation) | School of the Environment | Trent University

• Wade Davis | Ethnosphere
• Jasper Doest | Visual narratives; write before you see
• Jose Etcheverry | Renewable energy
• Chad Heartwood | Story editing
• Mark Jacquemain | Narrative vs story; writing
• George Lakoff | Cognitive linguistics; framing; metaphors
• Guujaaw | Haul water; hew wood; “if you can’t enjoy the fight… do something else”
• Frans Lanting | Pre-visualization; visual constructs
• Melina Laboucan-Massimo | Indigenous stewardship
• Kathy Moran | People + planet; personal projects; visual storytelling
• Cristina Mittermeier | Conservation photography; enoughness
• Michael “Nick” Nichols | Be wild
• Wallace J. Nichols | Bluemind; poachers know where to find the animals
• Paul Nicklen | Just work harder than everyone else; underwater techniques
• Jaime Rojo | Everything about his ethos
• Sebastiao Salgado | Write love letters
• Peter Timmerman | Narrative theory
• Alexa Weik von Mossner | Affect; empathy