Jo-Anne McArthurs shares a personal story about one year in her life as an animal photojournalist, starting with her time as “Sea Shepherd Crew Photographer” . . .
EXCERPT: “These moments of quietude give me time to reflect on how the heck I got to be on this boat of environmental and animal rights activists, and on how a few defining life decisions led me to this moment.”
ABOUT JO-ANNE MCARTHUR
Jo-Anne McArthur is an award-winning animal photojournalist, author, educator, and the founder of We Animals Media, a photo agency which explores our uses, abuses, and sharing of spaces with the animals of this planet. She is the protagonist in the award-winning documentary The Ghosts in Our Machine (2013) and has authored three books, We Animals (2013), Captive (2017) and HIDDEN: Animals in the Anthropocene (2020). We Animals Media makes thousands of images and video available for free to anyone advocating for animals.
Thank you Jo-Anne for your story and your courage! The world needs more women like you.