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<body> <h1> | ©YMJE - Momatiuk Eastcott - cloudscloudsclouds - polyptychs - photos of clouds, mammals, birds, trees, ice, water, salmon - © Images registered Copyright Office</h1> <h2>©YMJE - Momatiuk Eastcott - cloudscloudsclouds - polyptychs - photos of clouds, mammals, birds, trees, ice, water, salmon - © Images registered Copyright Office</h2> <div>Yva Momatiuk and John Eastcott are professional nature photographers. Their work appears in National Geographic, Smithsonian, Audubon, Nature Conservancy, National Wildlife, Defenders of Wildlife and other international magazines.</div> <span class="links"><a href="/index.html" target="_top"><font color="#333333">Home</font></a></span>   <span class="links"><strong><a href="/portfolio.html" target="_top"><font color="#ffffff">Photographs</font></a></strong></span>   <span class="links"><a href="/content.html?page=1" target="_top"><font color="#333333">About</font></a></span>   <span class="links"><a href="/content.html?page=2" target="_top"><font color="#333333">Recent exhibits</font></a></span>   <span class="links"><a href="/content.html?page=3" target="_top"><font color="#333333">Contact us or our stock agency</font></a></span>   <span class="links"><a href="/content.html?page=4" target="_top"><font color="#333333">Stories from the field</font></a></span>   <span class="links"><a href="/content.html?page=5" target="_top"><font color="#333333">Links</font></a></span>   <span class="links"><a href="/content.html?page=7" target="_top"><font color="#333333">Water Dreamings: Stories</font></a></span>   <span class="links"><a href="/content.html?page=9" target="_top"><font color="#333333">How to use this site</font></a></span>   <span class="links"><a href="/content.html?page=10" target="_top"><font color="#333333">Login</font></a></span> <div> <style>  </style> <div class="encloser contentSpan" > <span class="encloser" > <table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="width: 800px; "> <tbody> <tr> <td> <p><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "></span></span></span></p> <p>Yva Momatiuk and John Eastcott, a wife and husband team, are internationally published photographers of nature. Nomadic for years, they now hang their hats in the Catskills, NY and spend much of the year following animals, ever-changing landscapes, and moving with the light while exploring the essence of remote places.</p> <p>Born in Poland, Momatiuk fell in love with nature photography as a child, while watching grainy B/W documentary films of animals living in swamps of Eastern Poland.  She has a Master’s degree in architecture and urban planning, and worked as a designer before she left the Manhattan landscape for a Wyoming cattle ranch near the Great Divide, where she rode horses, chased cows, photographed and wrote.<br /> <br /> A New Zealander, Eastcott published his first book of photographs at 17, earned a degree in photography in London, and met Yva in Wyoming near the Grand Tetons. They decided to share their photographic credits, proposed their first story idea to <i>National Geographic</i> and embarked on their Canadian Arctic assignment for the <i>Still Inuit, Still Free</i> article in 1976. More articles for the Society followed, documenting the lives of Maori of New Zealand's East Cape, high country sheep farmers of New Zealand, mountain people of Poland and Slovakia, and the inhabitants of the marine and sub-Arctic realm of Newfoundland and Labrador.<br /> <br /> They have followed the mustangs of the American West and had their work appear in a book of images and in a <i>Smithsonian</i> cover story. They explored Alaska,  the American Southwest and the river swamps of the South. They photographed in New Zealand, Poland, Slovakia, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Patagonia, Australia, Kenya and Namibia.</p> <p>Yva and John practice long commitments to places they love and spent three summers exploring the Pribilof Archipelago and other islands of the Bering Sea in Alaska, documenting the rich marine wildlife and a stewardship program designed to strengthen the young Aleuts' link with the natural world. The coverage resulted in a <i>National Wildlife</i> article, a <i>Ranger Rick</i> story for which they received RR's Magazine Writing Award, and an annual award of the Alaska Conservation Foundation for excellence in still photography dedicated to environmental issues. Their image of Mt.McKinley in Alaska became the U.S. international airmail postal stamp; three more of their photographs have appeared on postage stamps.. </p> <p>They have published six books: <i>High Country</i> (A.W.& A.H. Reed); <i>This Marvellous Terrible Place: Images of Newfoundland and Labrador</i>; <i>In a Sea of Wind: Images of the Prairies </i>(Camden House Publishing); <i>Mustang</i> (Rufus Publications) and two titles for the award-winnig National Geographic Society series of non-fiction children books: <i>Face to Face With Wild Horses</i> and <i>Face to Face With Penguins.</i> <i>This Marvellous Terrible Place </i> also became a theatrical play.</p> <p>Among other honors, Yva and John received four awards at the National Press Photographers Association Pictures of the Year and five awards at the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year international competition, as well as awards in Nature's Best and National Wildlife magazine competitions.<br /> <br /> <i>National Geographic </i>also published their article titled <i>Dance of Death</i>, the first pictorial account of a dying Alaskan moose stalked by a family of wolves and grizzly bears who move in to share the bounty. Momatiuk and Eastcott ventured repeatedly to Antarctica in a sailboat and photographed <i>Shore Leave,</i> a <i>National Geographic </i>photo essay about the southern elephant seals of South Georgia Island, and a <i>Defenders of Wildlife </i>article about global climate changes and their impact on many species of penguins.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> </p> </div> </span> </div> <div> <script src="/js/js.js"></script> <script defer src="//assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit.js" data-pin-build="parsePinBtns"></script> </body>