Explorers Club Annual Dinner 2022
For the 6th time, I was selected as the portrait photographer for the Explorers Club Annual Dinner.
Now in it’s 118th year, the dinner is famous for the exotic food on offer, including deep fried tarantulas, python and roaches!
But more than this, it is an opportunity for its world-changing members to gather, network, celebrate their accomplishments and look to the future.
Astronaut and President of the Explorers Club Richard and Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux with their children
Natalie Cash, Executive Producer - Wildlife Conservation Society
Astronaut Mike Massimino
Vanessa Zhang and space entrepreneur / Blue Origin Astronaut Chris Boshuizen
Explorers Club Fellow Justin Fornal, brandishing a ‘Cola de Gallo’ (rooster's tail) machete from Oaxaca, Mexico
Jaison & Jamie Robinson
Lois and Daniel Kobal, Vice President Exploration Fund at The Explorers Club
Urban wildlife specialist George Mackenzie Jr
David Dolan, recipient of the Sweeney Medal
Blue Origin Astronaut Audrey Powers and her sister Kathleen
The young explorers, the 'next next' generation
Explorers Club Member and explorer Martin Kraus
Geologist, Explorers Club Fellow and 'EC50' awardee Sarah Carmichael with photographer Felix Kunze, co-investigators in research into the Late Devonian Mass extinction
The Adventure Canada Young Explorers: Denea Buckingham, Aleks Rikhterman, Trevor Wallace, Grace Cordsen, Alfredo Pourailly, Eric Herrera
The Vintage Egyptologist - Colleen Darnell
Egyptologists John and Colleen Darnell
Josh Bernstein with Discovery's Josh Gates
Sweeney Award recipient for 2022, Robert Atwater
Filmmakers and recipients of the 2021 Explorers Club Medal, Dereck & Beverly Joubert
Karen Billyard, Bjorn Ahlander and Emanuel Persson, of the Viking ship Draken HH
Recipient of the 2020 President's Award for Conservation, Dr Laurie Marker, founder and Executive Director of Cheetah Conservation Fund, pictured here with Bruce Brewer
Anna Isserman
Founder of the Himalayan Stove Project, George Basch
some of the many volunteers that make the Explorers Club Annual Dinner come together
2020 Explorers Club Medal recipient Victor L. Vescovo
With thanks to The Explorers Club, Oliphant Studios, Bill and Sharyn Runyon, David Isserman, Kevin Murphy, Richard Garriott and everyone else that helped make this possible
A huge thank you to my spectacular team:
Kenneth Underwood, Brandi Nicole, Sherridon Poyer, Allie Epstein, Magnus Karlson, Emily Teague, and Keoni Chun