Bio

	About The Photographer

Since 2003, Nathan Williamson has been a freelance assistant specializing in remote camera photography on wildlife assignments. In this capacity he has worked for photographers on six National Geographic Magazine feature articles. The most recent publication from this work was Michael “Nick” Nichols' article "Ivory Wars: Last Stand In Zakouma" (National Geographic Magazine, March, 2007). A remote camera picture from that assignment won first place in the 2007 World Press Photo Competition nature category. Between his work as an assistant, Nathan is doing his own documentary on issues surrounding the return of large populations of black bears to the East Coast of the Untied States. He lives in a cabin outside of Charlottesville, VA.

Nathan Williamson was born in Webster Springs, a rural West Virginia coal-mining town, in 1977. In 2000, he graduated magna cum laude from Macalester College in Minnesota. In 2001, Nathan received a Fulbright Fellowship from the US State Department to document efforts to curb deforestation in the Bolivian Amazon. After 11 months of field work in Bolivia, he returned to the United States. In 2003, he began working for National Geographic Staff Photographer Michael “Nick” Nichols, as his photographic assistant. For seven months in 2003 he traveled with Mr. Nichols and Dr. Mike Fay to document a major new park system in the West African country of Gabon established after the historic Megatransect expeditions (see National Geographic Magazine, August 2004).

Since 2003, Nathan has assisted veteran photographer George Steinmetz in the Sonoran desert (National Geographic Magazine, September 2006), and Amy Toensing (National Geographic Magazine, January 2006). He recently finished assisting Mr. Nichols on another National Geographic story in East Africa for five months.

Nathan Williamson may be reached at:

Outside links: (my brother's fleece hat empire, my father's woodturning homepage)