Marc's latest project, called Extinction, documents over 130 species of extinct and threatened animals and plants – specimens found in the collections of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago – to generate an overview of the accelerating loss of biodiversity.
The images lead the reader to the species’ stories, promoting a greater understanding of conservation efforts, reasons for decline (including climate change, habitat loss and overexploitation) and mankind’s stewardship of life on Earth at a critical time in history.
About the speaker
Marc Schlossman grew up in Chicago and is a London-based freelance photographer and videographer. As a teenager he found a love of the natural world and remote places on canoe expeditions in the vast landscapes of northern Canada and Nunavut. Volunteering during his high school years at the Field Museum, Chicago, in the Mammals Collection, he spent one entire summer labelling just mink skulls.
Marc went on to attain a BSc in Wildlife Biology from the University of Maine at Orono. After university he worked installing fossil specimens in display cases in Iowa Hall, part of the University of Iowa’s Museum of Natural History, and at the same time discovered photography, building a homemade black-and-white darkroom in a rented house in Iowa City. He moved to London and joined the photojournalism agency Panos Pictures in 1992.
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