Piotr Naskreki Artist Talk Highlights – LOOK3 2015
Watch on VimeoLOOK3 is delighted to welcome Piotr Naskrecki as the 2015 TREES Artist. Piotr is a photographer and entomologist based at Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology.
Piotr’s field research on insects has taken him to six continents, where he strives to promote understanding, appreciation, and conservation of invertebrates and other “non-charismatic” animals. Through photography, he aspires to capture both their beauty and their roles as critically important members of the Earth’s ecosystems. He is one of the founding members of the International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP) and his work been published in The Smithsonian Magazine, Natural History, National Wildlife, National Geographic, and BBC Wildlife Magazine. His books illustrate the multitude of threats faced by invertebrate animals (The Smaller Majority), explore ancient organisms and ecosystems of the globe (Relics), and his most recent title with E.O. Wilson, A Window on Eternity, documents the efforts to restore the diverse ecosystems of Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique. Piotr’s photography has been exhibited in American Museum of Natural History, New York; The Natural Museum, London; Harvard Museum of Natural History; and Aquamarine Fukushima (Japan).
Piotr received his PhD in Entomology at the University of Connecticut. He currently directs the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Laboratory at Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique where he trains Mozambican biologists and conservationists, and helps rebuild the park, which suffered during the recent civil war.
