Jon McCormack Resume

Jon McCormack is an Australian-born conservation and natural history photographer whose work explores the intricate patterns, emotional textures, and hidden architectures of wild places. Informed by an upbringing in the Australian Outback, his photographs move between the intimate and the immense – from microscopic mineral formations and coastal details to aerial landscapes, ice, rivers, wildlife, and remote ecosystems. His work seeks to create wonder, attention, and ecological empathy, and has been widely published and used by conservation organizations to advocate for fragile ecosystems.

• National Geographic – “In praise of nature’s spinning, spiraling patterns” / feature on Patterns: Art of the Natural World.
• The Times – “Mapping Mother Nature: Earth’s intricate patterns caught on camera.”
• CNN – “Dazzling photographs show nature in a new way.”
• PetaPixel – “Patterns Is a Photographic Celebration of Nature’s Rhythms.”
• New Scientist – “Dynamic patterns of the natural world.”
• Euronews – “Beautiful but precarious”: photographer captures Earth’s fragile systems.
• Blind Magazine – “The Silent Language of the Earth.”
• Feature Shoot – feature on the Patterns photobook and hidden geometry across the planet.
• Frames Magazine – “Extraordinary & Beautiful, Necessary & Good.”
• Digital Camera World, Amateur Photographer, Them Frames, Urgent Matter, Parley TV and additional international coverage.
• Them Frames: The Apple Engineer Changing the Way You See Nature
• Urgent Matter: Photographer Jon McCormack’s new book explores patterns found in nature
• Amateur Photographer: You won’t believe these incredible nature photographs …
• Wildeye Magazine: Harnessing Patterns for Conservation

• Co-founder, The Kilgoris Project – education and community development work in western Kenya.
• Founding board member, SeaLegacy – ocean conservation and visual storytelling.
• Leadership Council, Conservation International.
• Fellow, Royal Geographical Society.
• Member, The Explorers Club.

• Fellow, Royal Geographical Society.
• Member National, The Explorers Club, elected 2023.
• Travel Photographer of the Year exhibition selection, Royal Geographical Society, London, 2010.
• Yosemite Renaissance juried exhibition selections, 2010, 2012, 2013.
• Selected artist, PhotoVogue Festival 2025.
• Selected artist, GESTE Paris 2025.
• Maison Senato Photography Residency, Milan, 2025.

My work begins with attention. I am drawn to the recurring patterns and forms that bind the natural world together: rivers that branch like veins, ice that folds like stone, minerals that resemble landscapes, and animals whose markings echo larger ecological rhythms. By moving between scale, abstraction, and natural history, I hope to reintroduce viewers to wonder – not as escape, but as a way of seeing that can deepen care for the living world.

Website jonmccormack.com

Instagram @jonmccormackphoto

Media inquiries alexandra@alexandrafanning.com