Clay Bolt - Using Photography as a Tool for Communication

<p>Welcome to Episode 155 of the F-Stop Collaborate and Listen podcast.</p> <p>This week's episode features one of the most inspirational photographers of our generation, in my opinion. He has focused the attention of his lens on things that matter. </p> <p>Welcome <a href='http://www.claybolt.com/'>Clay Bolt</a> to the podcast.</p> <p>Clay Bolt is a Natural History and Conservation Photographer specializing in the world’s smaller creatures who regularly partners with organizations such as the<a href='https://www.nationalgeographic.com/video/shorts/721309763520/'> National Geographic Society</a> and the <a href='https://xerces.org/press/ghost-in-making-nationwide-release-of-revealing-film-about-decline-of-once-common-pollinator'>Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation</a>. His current major focus is on North America’s native bees and the important roles that they play in our lives. He was a leading voice in the <a href='https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/bee-that-breaks-your-heart-180960900/'>fight to protect the rusty-patched bumble bee</a> under the <a href='https://www.fws.gov/midwest/endangered/insects/rpbb/'>Endangered Species Act</a>, which became North America's first federally protected native bee in 2017. In 2019, Bolt became <a href='https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/science/giant-bee-wallace.html'>the first photographer to document a living Wallace's Giant Bee</a>—the world's largest bee—as a part of a four person exploration team to rediscover the species in the Indonesian islands known as the North Moluccas. In his current role as Communications Lead for <a href='https://www.worldwildlife.org/magazine/issues/spring-2018/articles/wwf-s-clay-bolt-on-the-value-of-the-northern-great-plains'>World Wildlife Fund's Northern Great Plains Program</a> he is developing strategies to fight insect and grasslands biodiversity loss by gaining a greater understanding of the effects that Neonicotinoid pesticides have on wildlife. Clay is a Fellow in the Linnean Society of London, Associate Fell