Breakout Speaker: NANPA Summit 2025

Jennifer Leigh Warner

www.experiencewildlife.com

Jennifer Leigh Warner is a fine art conservation wildlife photographer, writer, public speaker and workshop leader for Wildside Nature Tours, living in Central Texas and specializes in creating meaningful images that conveys a message of hope for the natural world.

Jennifer feels strongly that by sharing these images of beautiful animals in their natural environment, she can inspire those around her to preserve the world that we share with all living creatures. Jennifer is a Certified Texas Master Naturalist, an Ambassador for Nature First, serves on the Board of Directors for the North American Nature Photography Association, on the NANPA Board of Trustees for the American Society of Media Photographers, and has been serving as the Chair of the Ethics Committee since 2018.

Jennifer works closely with conservation organizations to help support their missions to protect wildlife and the world around us. She believes that photography is a powerful tool to share these stores, educate photo viewers on important topics and inspire change. Jennifer’s work has been published in Outdoor California, Gizmodo, the NANPA Expressions Magazine, Outdoor Photographer Magazine, WIRED, The New Yorker, National Geographic Online and Wild Planet Photo Magazine among others. Jennifer also received the 2023 NANPA Mission Award and the 2024 NANPA Foundation’s Philip Hyde Conservation Grant.

Session Information

Putting Your Images to Work

Friday, May 16 / 7:00am – 8:15am / Breakout Room – TBA

Is photographing wildlife and landscapes enough for nature photographers or should we be putting those images to work to preserve the species we care about? Fine Art Conservation photographer Jennifer Leigh Warner will talk about how photographs have the power to promote positive change and create policies to make real impacts on wildlife conservation.

She will share stories from her more than two decades in the field as a professional photographer and provide real world examples of how you can start putting your images to work.

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