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Installation #155. Metropolitan Museum of Art; NYC.

NewBorn Study #1003, Lucy O'Brien

Karine Aigner spent 9 years as the Senior picture editor for National Geographic Kids magazine.  Since then, she has spent her life as a freelance photographer and picture editor for a number of publications including Audubon, Geo and National Geographic. She recently did a video for Disney. Karine will be sharing some of her award-winning pictures with us and telling the stories behind them as well as her own fascinating life story in her presentation to us.

Karine Aigner's life reads like a set of novellas.  Raised in Saudi Arabia, Karine motorcycled through Vietnam, circumnavigated the globe by ship, taught English in Taiwan, and then there was the time the hyena pups chewed her shoes (while on her feet).  On her first trip to Africa, she fell in love with a continent.  From one chapter to the next, her adventures uncover her fervor to tell the stories of life through the lens of a camera; her passion became stories of animals: their relationships to humans, their relationships to their own world, and their existence in the space between the two.

Karine is an associate fellow with the International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP) and a member of Girls Who Click (a non-profit organization offering free photographic workshops to inspire teen girls that they too can have careers as a wildlife photographer. She is a strong advocate for women photographers.

Karine leads photographic tours across the globe to captivating places like the Galapagos and Tanzania. She has worked with children all over the world, using the camera as a tool to teach awareness and conservation. 

Her imagery is represented by National Geographic Creative, and Tandem Stills & Motion and Nature Picture Library.

Karine resides in Washington, D.C.