Wolfe’s latest book shows that the veteran photographer is still at the top of his game and creating exceptional images, says David Clark
£80 (RRP), Insight Editions, hardback, 352 pages, ISBN: 978-1683830832
Art Wolfe has been at the forefront of nature photography for most of his 40-year career. He has produced more than 60 books including landmark collections such as Migrations (1994) and The Living Wild (2000) and has presented the long-running US TV series Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge.
During that time, the world’s wildlife has been under increasing pressure from climate breakdown, the large-scale destruction of natural habitats and poaching. As popular nature documentaries such as Planet Earth III increasingly acknowledge, it’s no longer enough to simply show pristine environments and amazing species and ignore the fact that large-scale change to the natural world is now happening.
Accordingly, Wolfe’s new book, as he says in the introduction, is ‘a book on how animals are adapting to a rapidly changing climate.’ It’s divided into ten chapters covering the variety of environments on Earth, including Arctic Tundra, Temperate Forests and Desert.
Each chapter includes an essay by biologist and conservationist Gregory Green, who describes the environments and their wildlife along with the co
