About the Artist

 

R.J. Turner is an award winning photographer, who combines her love for the natural world with her photography to help bring change across continents.  Working in the conservation photography field for over a decade, she has partnered with Save the Elephants in Kenya, The Chimpanzee Sanctuary and Wildlife Conservation Trust in Uganda, the African Wildlife Foundation in Southern Africa, Craighead Beringia South in Wyoming, and has been the Resident Photographer for the Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative in Jackson, Wyoming for 7 years. 

R.J. has used her photography and writing to connect people with issues near and far, from the American Wild Mustang Horses to the illegal Ivory Trade and the threats that African Elephants, Chimpanzees and other species face due to human encroachment, the illegal wildlife trade, and the bushmeat trade. She has had numerous art installations to raise awareness of various environmental issues, and actively uses social media to engage people. Follow her on instagram and Facebook on the links found at the bottom of this page.

R.J. Turner at work in Uganda in 2015 for the Chimpanzee Sanctuary and Wildlife Conservation Trust. While there on assignment, she also became the surrogate mother to an infant chimp for the first five weeks of his life.

R.J. Turner at work in Uganda in 2015 for the Chimpanzee Sanctuary and Wildlife Conservation Trust. While there on assignment, she also became the surrogate mother to an infant chimp for the first five weeks of his life. The chimp, Eazy, is thriving in Uganda on Ngamba Island.

 Exhibitions 

2019-2020 The Wild West And It’s Denizens, a joint show with her father, Bart Walter; Stanford University,

  D.C.

2019 Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative (NRCC Symposium at the Center for the Arts in

Jackson, Wyoming.

2018-2019 Wild Life, solo show at the Environmental Resource Center, Ketchum, Idaho 

2018 Remembering Great Apes, La Galleria, Pall Mall, London

2017-2018 Nature’s Best Photography, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, D.C.

2017 Raw Power, solo show at Lipton Fine Arts, Ketchum, Idaho

2017 NRCC Symposium at the Center for the Arts in Jackson, Wyoming

2016-2017 Nature’s Best Photography, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, D.C. 

2016 Remembering Elephants, La Galleria, Pall Mall, London

2016 Unbridled, a joint show with Bart Walter; Carroll Arts Center, Maryland

2015 Mustangs, a joint show with her father, Bart Walter; Stanford University, D.C. 

2013 Solo show at Carroll County Public Library Headquarters, Maryland

2007 A joint show with her father, mother, and sister; Carroll Arts Center, Maryland

2007 Rebecca’s Africa, solo show at Carroll County Community College, Maryland

 Publications

2018 Remembering Great Apes, coffee table book.

2018 Space for Giants; Annual Report and Online Media

2018 Idaho Mountain Express

2018 JHStyle Magazine 

2017 Nature’s Best Photography Magazine 

2017 Your Weekend Magazine, New Zealand

2016 Nature’s Best Photography Magazine

2016 Wild Planet Photo Magazine 

2016 Carroll County Times, Maryland

2016 Idaho Mountain Express

2016 Ursinus College Magazine

2016 Remembering Elephants, coffee table book

2015 Free Spirit’s - Saving America’s Wild Horses, Documentary

2015-Present Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative; Annual Reports, Newsletters, Brochures, and Online

Media. You can view them all here: http://nrccooperative.org/library/annual-report/

2015-2017 SVPN, Sun Valley Property News Magazine

2011-2014 Africa Geographic Magazine Publications, African Wildlife Foundation Annual Reports,

Newsletters, Brochures, Calendars and Online Media.

2011 Ursinus College Magazine

2008-Present The Chimpanzee Sanctuary and Wildlife Conservation Trust; Annual Reports, Newsletters, Online

Media and Brochures

2007 Carroll County Times, Maryland

2006-Present Save the Elephants; Annual Reports, Newsletters and Online Media