Develop Your Business Speaker: NANPA Summit 2025
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Wendy Shattil stands out as a full-time professional wildlife and conservation photographer, a rare and remarkable career path. Winning the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Grand Prize as the first woman was a groundbreaking accomplishment. Additionally, receiving NANPA’s Lifetime Achievement Award reflects her significant contributions to the field of nature photography.
Her work goes beyond capturing beautiful images—she uses photography as a tool for storytelling and conservation advocacy. Through her lens, she has reached a broad audience, encouraging people to engage with and protect the environment, inspiring people to care for and protect the natural world. “Conservation photography goes beyond just capturing images; its about telling stories that motivate people to be aware and invested,” Shattil said.
Wendy’s Summit program CopyWronged©: Case stories of wildly successful infringement settlements is based on her experience with numerous copyright infringements and decades of successfully protecting unlicensed uses of her registered images. Being in this situation was never planned, but the first infringements in 1991 led Wendy to diligently register photos from that point on. The action of formalizing her rights continues to be justified many times over, reflected in a substantial number of settlements.
In 2024, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science added over 100,000 images by the Shattil/Rozinski team to their permanent archive. This collection serves as an invaluable scientific and historical resource and a testament to the lasting impact of their work. By spanning more than 40 years and being meticulously recorded with metadata (locations, dates, and species), these images contribute to research on biodiversity, species distribution, and environmental changes over time.
Wendy and Bob were named Founding Fellows in the International League of Conservation Photographers, Department Associate for the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and Artists in Residence at Rocky Mountain National Park. Together they received NANPA’s Philip Hyde Grant for environmental photography, Denver Audubon’s Environmental Stewardship Award and the Colorado Wildlife Federation’s Conservationist of the Year Award.
Develop Your Business Day-Long Seminar / Tuesday, May 13
CopyWronged © – Case Stories of Wildly Successful Infringement Settlements
Tuesday, May 13 / 3:00pm – 4:00pm / Develop Your Business Seminar Room
NOTE: This Session is part of the day-long seminar: “Develop Your Business” and requires that this Seminar is added to your Summit Registration or purchased seperately. For more information or questions about adding this Seminar, please contact summit@nanpa.org.
We’ve all heard about registering photos to protect against copyright infringement, but most of us haven’t bothered to do it. Since copyright ownership is automatic, why we should even bother?
In this session, we’ll answer that question. We’ll bring to life the legal principles involved by weaving in compelling case studies of real-life infringements successfully pursued by NANPA members and others. These cases resulted in lucrative settlements simply because the images were registered in advance.
Today, more than ever, it pays to protect the intellectual property of the photos we create. And it’s never been easier. We hope this session will tempt you to reconsider the value of copyright registration and take a few minutes to register select images.
At any time, an image can end up in the wrong place at the right time, or even go viral and get scooped up by a company that should have known better than to use it without a license. But they do it because they don’t expect photographers to do anything about it.
We’ll show you what happens when photographers take time to protect their work and how those companies end up paying the consequences. And the photographers? They end up with significant rewards – sometimes as tangible as a new truck!