John Beatty is one of Britain’s most exciting and stimulating nature, travel and adventure photographers. His work is chiefly concerned with the timeless rhythms of the natural world, its beauty and simplicity and man’s place within it. He has published several books.
John is a captivating and inspirational speaker. He has enthralled audiences at international film festivals with his multimedia presentations receiving accolades from the media, the public and from leading brands in the photographic industry. Whether rafting down the Colorado River of the Grand Canyon, filming the volcanic eruption in Iceland, or celebrating round a campfire with primitive Kalahari Bushmen, John’s stories leave his audiences infused with energy and wonder at the beauty of our planet.

“It was brilliant. I have to say it was art…the whole audience responded with immediate and lasting applause…See it if you can.”  Climber Magazine

2009 saw John travel around UK theatres with his first ever national lecture tour Wild Vision: Images and stories from the wilderness. Talking to sell out audiences, he received great reviews and we are currently planning his second lecture tour due in theatres in 2011.

Review

"Oh not another egotist with a camera' was my true thought about being persuaded to go and see adventure photographer, John Beatty.

Could I really endure heroic tales about death-defying feats of photography while dangling from Himalayan peaks or accounts of white-knuckle stunts while getting a close up of a lion in East Africa?

My real fear was having to listen to geeky explanations about the correct shutter speed, aperture and depth of field for that one-off cool shot.

In reality an evening with Beatty was the antithesis of all this. The only star of his show was the utter beauty, mystery and majesty of nature itself.

Beatty has an uncanny ability through words and pictures to help you re-discover your 'wonder'.

His maxim in photography is: respond to what's there; capture the feeling; wait for that special moment; don't impose your artistic view on the world but be ready for that fleeting moment when you see something extraordinary, moving or special.

I'm not a photographer but he made me want to be one. Since hearing him talk I have been open to so many more of those special moments: a lonely road, light falling on hill tops in the early in the morning, the colours in a sunset.

I was inexplicably moved by Beatty's whole meditative approach to photography and nature — and his son Robin Beatty's evocative soundtracks which accompany his pictures.

What I thought would be a mediocre evening of dull camera talk turned out to be a life changing experience which has helped me appreciate textures, colours, light, tranquility and transient moments. In short: Beatty has helped me 'see'."

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John Beatty biography

"My work is primarily concerned with the timeless rhythms of the natural environment, its beauty and simplicity, and man’s place within it”.

John is one of the leading nature and adventure photographers in the world, having worked with such companies as Adidas, Boots, Toyota, Midlands Power, BBC Television, and United Utilities, and in the outdoor design & manufacturing sector Karrimor, Helly Hansen, Brasher, Lowe Alpine, Rohan and Sprayway. John works closely with his London agent, Getty Images, to whom he supplies photographs for worldwide corporate advertising and features.

In multi-media, John has produced four programs for public presentations; the award-winning Touch the Earth - which toured the UK and USA in 1987; Pure Land, and Earthborn followed, both touring in the UK. More recently, ‘Wild’ Spirit in the Land premiered at Banff Mountainfilm in Canada, Telluride Mountainfilm in Colorado, and was shown in the UK at Kendal Mountainfilm in the same year. His commercial programs include Wilderness and Water for United Utilities, and A Living Landscape - for the Peak District National Park Planning Board’s 40th Anniversary. 

John also consults in the travel industry, managing extraordinary expeditions into wilderness regions. Every year John designs and publishes a 58 image desk-diary of natural world subjects for the John Muir Trust. He lives in the Peak District with his family, in a small village beneath a skyline of windswept rocks and wild heather moors.