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Scott Wallace (born 1954) is a freelance writer, producer, and photojournalist and a contributor to National Geographic magazine and National Geographic Adventure. [1] He is the author of The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes (2011). [2] Wallace is one of the pioneering "convergence" journalists who use the synergy of text, image, and sound. [3]
Wallace graduated from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy in 1977 and from the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri with a Masters in Print and Broadcast Reporting.[ citation needed ]
Wallace began his career as a reporter for CBS News Radio, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in El Salvador in 1983. He moved his base of operations from El Salvador to Nicaragua in 1985 in order to cover the escalating Contra War and the Reagan Administration's efforts to oust the leftist Sandinista government. He continued writing for Cox Newspapers until early 1986, by which time he was writing for Newsweek and The Independent (UK). He moved to Guatemala in early 1989 and became Central America Correspondent for The Guardian .
Since the early 1990s, Wallace has worked as a magazine writer and photographer, while producing long-form network news magazine programs on war, international organized crime, indigenous affairs, and the environment. From 1997 to 1999 Wallace worked for the Utica Observer Dispatch in Utica New York as a special projects, immigration and police reporter. The bulk of Wallace's work has been for the various entities of National Geographic, including National Geographic magazine, National Geographic Adventure , National Geographic Traveler , and the National Geographic Channel. His assignments for National Geographic have taken him from the rainforests of Brazil to the high mountain peaks of the Peruvian Andes and the rugged, windswept Wakhan Corridor in the western Himalayas of Afghanistan. Wallace specializes in the coverage of conflict over land and resources in remote locations, where crucial historical processes are unfolding beyond the sight of the rest of the world.
Wallace was contracted by the World Bank to document Bank-financed projects around the world in 2004. His travels took him to Morocco, Senegal, Mauritania, Tanzania, Eritrea, Yemen, Bulgaria, Turkey, India, Bangladesh, Thailand, Peru, Brazil, and Colombia. Following his work with the World Bank, Wallace worked on assignment for National Geographic and accompanied conservationist George Schaller on an expedition into the remote Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan's Badakshan Province. Over the course of two months, Wallace and Schaller travelled by foot, horseback and yak; the journey was featured in the December 2006/January 2007 edition of National Geographic Adventure. [4]
Wallace's writing has appeared in National Geographic, National Geographic Adventure, National Geographic Traveler, Harper's, Sports Afield, Conde Nast Traveler, Newsweek, Interview, The Nation , and the Village Voice among many other publications.
Television credits include the CBS Evening News , CBS News "Eye to Eye", CNN, Fox News, NYT/Video News International, and the National Geographic Channel.
Photography credits include: National Geographic, Outside , Details , Interview , Newsweek , The Washington Post , Smithsonian magazine, The Economist , and The New York Times.
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Photographic exhibitions: "Salvador-Nicaragua: Two Faces/One War" supported by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), appeared at Kirkland Arts Center, Clinton, New York, 1999. His exhibition, "Baghdad, USA: Recent Photojournalism from Iraq," appeared at the Banning + Low Gallery, Kensington, MD in 2004.
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The Wakhan Corridor is a narrow strip of territory located within the Badakhshan province of Afghanistan. This corridor stretches eastward, connecting Afghanistan to Xinjiang, China. It also separates the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region of Tajikistan in the north from the northern regions of Pakistan in the south. This high mountain valley serves as the source of both the Panj and Pamir rivers, which converge to form the larger Amu River. For countless centuries, a vital trade route has traversed this valley, facilitating the movement of travelers to and from East, South, and Central Asia.
John Henry Hemming is a historian, explorer, and expert on the Incas and indigenous peoples of the Amazon basin.
Uncontacted peoples are groups of indigenous peoples living without sustained contact with neighbouring communities and the world community. Groups who decide to remain uncontacted are referred to as indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation. Legal protections make estimating the total number of uncontacted peoples challenging, but estimates from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in the UN and the non-profit group Survival International point to between 100 and 200 uncontacted peoples numbering up to 10,000 individuals total. A majority of uncontacted peoples live in South America, particularly northern Brazil, where the Brazilian government and National Geographic estimate between 77 and 84 tribes reside.
John Hoagland was an experienced American photojournalist and war correspondent for Newsweek from San Diego, California, who was covering the Salvadoran Civil War in El Salvador at the time he was killed. He had covered other conflicts, including those in Nicaragua and Lebanon.
Sydney Ferreira Possuelo is a Brazilian explorer, social activist and ethnographer who is considered the leading authority on Brazil's remaining isolated Indigenous Peoples.
Reza Deghati is an Iranian-French photojournalist who works under the name Reza.
Vale do Javari is one of the largest indigenous territories in Brazil, encompassing 85,444.82 km2 (32,990 mi2) – an area larger than Austria. It is named after the Javari River, the most important river of the region, which since 1851 has formed the border with Peru. It includes much of the Atalaia do Norte municipality as well as adjacent territories in the western section of Amazonas state. Besides the Javari it is transected by the Pardo, Quixito, Itaquai and Ituí rivers.
The Mashco-Piro or Mascho Piro, also known as the Cujareño people and Nomole, are an indigenous tribe of nomadic hunter-gatherers who inhabit the remote regions of the Amazon rainforest. They live in Manú National Park in the Madre de Dios Region in Peru. They have in the past actively avoided contact with non-native peoples.
Christopher P. Baker is a professional travel writer and photographer, adventure motorcyclist, tour leader, and Cuba expert, and the 2008 Lowell Thomas Award 'Travel Journalist of the Year.' He is a contributor to magazines and other publications worldwide, and is the author of travel guidebooks for publishers such as Dorling Kindersley, Lonely Planet, Moon Publications, and National Geographic.
R. Ian Lloyd is an Australian photographer who was born in Canada in 1953 and studied photography at Rochester Institute of Technology and Brooks Institute of Photography in the United States before coming to Australia in 1975. He worked in television and as a photographer for guide books before establishing his own photography and publishing company in Singapore in 1983. Ian has undertaken commissions for magazines such as National Geographic, Fortune and Time, and has won numerous awards for his work. He has photographed 36 books on countries and regions around Asia including large format books on Kathmandu, Bali and Singapore and a four volume series on Australian wine regions. His photographs have been widely exhibited around the world. In 2000 a retrospective book and exhibition of his work, Spirit of Asia, toured six Asian cities under the sponsorship of the National Geographic Channel. In 2007 he produced a book, DVD and travelling exhibition entitled STUDIO: Australian Painters on the Nature of Creativity.
Peter Guttman is an American author, photographer, lecturer, television personality and adventurer, was named a Fellow of the Explorers Club, and has traveled on assignment through over 250 countries and seven continents.
Les Stone is an American photojournalist. He has received several World Press Photo and Pictures of the Year International awards for his work spanning from 1989 to the present.
Loren McIntyre, was an American photojournalist who worked extensively in South America. His photographs and writing appeared in National Geographic and hundreds of other periodicals. He has numerous books to his credit, including The Incredible Incas and Their Timeless Land (1975), Exploring South America (1990), Amazonia (1991), and Die Amerikanische Reise (2000)
Guillermo Cervera Calonje is a freelance photojournalist. He is known for documenting subjects such as conflicts, social issues, and surfing.
The Man of the Hole, or the Tanaru Indian, was an Indigenous person who lived alone in the Amazon rainforest in the Brazilian state of Rondônia. He was the sole inhabitant of the Tanaru Indigenous Territory, a protected Indigenous territory demarcated by the Brazilian government in 2007.
Pete Oxford is a British-born conservation photographer based in Quito, Ecuador. Originally trained as a marine biologist, he and his wife, South African-born Reneé Bish, now work as a professional photographic team focusing primarily on wildlife and indigenous cultures.
The Flecheiros are one of the uncontacted peoples in the Javari region of the Amazon. Their ambiguous name simply means "arrow shooters".
Monte Reel is an American author and journalist. His narrative nonfiction books include The Last of the Tribe (2010), Between Man and Beast (2013), and A Brotherhood of Spies (2018). From 2004 to 2008, he was the South America correspondent for The Washington Post and previously, he wrote for The Washington Post in Washington and Iraq.
Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent is a British travel writer and broadcaster who specializes in solo journeys through remote regions. Her latest book, Land of the Dawn-lit Mountains, was shortlisted for the 2018 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards.
Richard Cross (1950–1983) was a Pulitzer prize-nominated American photojournalist who worked in Colombia, Mexico, Tanzania, and the Central American countries of Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala.
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