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Neil Ever Osborne is a conservation photojournalist and visual artist.
Positioned at the convergence of documentary and art, his work examines the complex, troubled, yet inextricable link between people and planet with the purpose of protecting our only shared home.
For more than fifteen years, Osborne has been capturing images and telling stories about the earth’s last wild places—many of which remain fragile and in desperate need of protection—from the mountains of the Pacific Northwest to the jungles of Indonesia to the shores of the Falkland Islands.
Osborne’s work celebrates wilderness and the underappreciated benefits it provides to all of us. More recently, his aim has been to demystify the foreignness of such natural worlds—and of nature in general—and to replace the very idea of “the environment” with a concept more accessible and relatable to each of us: “a healthy home”.
There is an urgent need to recast the dialogue about the environment. It is vital that we bring new language and fresh perspectives to the discussion around these concepts—and that the conversation continue, because so many of our social concerns are the direct result of an unhealthy planet.
Using a documentary approach, Osborne’s efforts have been to seek out, locate, and reframe all of this in a new, nonverbal language, which bears witness to the beauty and value of wilderness and the encroaching proximity of humanity’s ubiquitous presence.
The inherent message behind his work is that humankind, so long considered apart from nature, is in fact a part of it.
To share this message Osborne collaborates with domestic and international publications, NGOs, charities, corporations, philanthropists, Indigenous nations, fine art galleries, and with a growing community of online advocates who align with his morals and values.
Osborne was recently named an Explorer with National Geographic and his photography is represented by the National Geographic Image Collection.
Osborne is a Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers, a Fellow of The Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and a Fellow of The Explorer’s Club.
Additionally, he was the inaugural Photographer-in-Residence with the Canadian Geographic Magazine.
As a Founding Partner at Evermaven, a full-service environmental communications agency, Osborne is based out of Toronto, Ontario, Canada when not in the field.
Credentials
Active
National Geographic Explorer
Photographer represented by National Geographic Image Collection
Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers
International Fellow of the Explorer’s Club
Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society
Founding Partner at Evermaven
Past
2-year tenure as an Ambassador with Nikon Canada
3-year mentorship with National Geographic photographer Frans Lanting
On assignment assistant to National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen
Inaugural Photographer-in-Residence with Canadian Geographic
Founder and Program Manager of Environmental Visual Communication
Conservation Photography Editor with Canadian Wildlife Magazine
M.A. degree in Visual Communication from Ohio University
B.Sc. degree in Conservation Biology from Trent University
Partnerships
Explorer
National Geographic Society
We fund and support groundbreaking scientists, conservationists, educators, and storytellers. Every one of them is a National Geographic Explorer – infinitely curious about our planet, committed to understanding it, and passionate about helping make it better.
Photographer
National Geographic Image Collection
National Geographic Image Collection, a division of the National Geographic Society is a stock photography agency that manages and licenses one of the world’s most comprehensive and unique collections of photographs and original artwork.
For image licensing please send an email to ngimagecollection@natgeo.com or call 202-791-2830.
Co-founder and Partner
Evermaven Inc.
Evermaven is a full-service communications agency that links people, planet, and profit. Using narrative and visual communication our work facilitates a growing dialogue about humanity’s everlasting footprint.
Read MoreAffiliations
Fellow
International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP)
The International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP) is an organization whose mission is to further environmental and cultural conservation through photography. As a collective body, their goal is to use the art of high-quality photography to encourage people to take action in support of tangible and meaningful conservation measures.
International Fellow
The Explorers Club
The Explorers Club is an international multidisciplinary professional society dedicated to the advancement of field research and the ideal that it is vital to preserve the instinct to explore. Since its inception in 1904, the Club has served as a meeting point and unifying force for explorers and scientists worldwide. Our headquarters is located at 46 East 70th Street in New York City.
Fellow
Royal Canadian Geographic Society
Canada itself, diverse in geographical regions and communities, is reflected in The Royal Canadian Geographical Society’s College of Fellows. So, too, have the Fellows always embodied the longstanding values and tenets of the RCGS: the determination to build, courage to explore and steadfast love of country. The Royal Canadian Geographical Society is dedicated to imparting a broader knowledge and deeper appreciation of Canada through its educational program, as well as by funding geographical expeditions and research, in the form of grants, studentships and awards.
Founder and Program Manager 2012–2016
Environmental Visual Communication
Positioned at the convergence of pragmatism and action, science and art, strategy and skill, the Environmental Visual Communication (EVC) post-graduate certificate, offered through Fleming College on-site at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada is an education experience producing a new school of hybridized communicators who are passionate about environmental issues and stories and who want to effectively engage people who can foster change.