Carlton Ward Jr.

Carlton Ward Jr is a conservation photographer and eighth-generation Floridian focused on Florida's living heritage. His work is published in magazines including Audubon, Smithsonian, Geo and Nature Conservancy. His 2009 book, Florida Cowboys, won a silver medal in the Florida Book Awards and for that work Popular Photography Magazine featured him as an artist working to save vanishing America. Carlton is a founding member of the International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP) and president of the Legacy Institute for Nature & Culture (LINC). He completed a Master’s degree in Ecology while working for the Smithsonian Institution in Gabon, leading to his first book, The Edge of Africa. He since worked with the WILD Foundation to photograph an endangered herd of migratory desert elephants in Mali. He is currently focused on long-term conservation projects at home and is a grantee of the National Geographic Society the Florida Wildlife Corridor Expedition. Limited-edition photographs are available through select galleries and CarltonWard.com.