National Geographic Photographer, Annie Griffiths Belt earned a degree in Photojournalism from the University of Minnesota. Since then she has photographed dozens of magazine and book projects for the Society, including National Geographic Magazine stories on Lawrence of Arabia, Baja California, Israel’s Galilee, Petra, Sydney, and Jerusalem. Annie’s work has also appeared in LIFE, Geo, Smithsonian, Merian, Paris Match, Stern, and many other publications. She devotes a portion of each year to producing fundraising images for aid organizations, including Church World Service and Habitat for Humanity.
    Annie has received awards from the National Press Photographers Association, the Associated Press, the National Organization of Women, and the White House News Photographers Association. She is a Fellow with the International League of Conservation Photographers. With a grant from National Geographic, Annie and author Barbara Kingsolver created Last Stand: America’s Virgin Lands. Proceeds from the book have raised more than a quarter of a million dollars for land conservation grants.
    Annie’s photographs have been exhibited in New York, Washington, Moscow, Tokyo
and Perpignon. She has just completed a photo-memoir of her life called A Camera,
Two Kids and a Camel. Annie lives with her husband, Don, and children, Lily and Charlie, in Virginia.