Anamaria Chediak (Ecuador) is driven by an insatiable curiosity born from her early explorations of the Andes and the Galapagos Islands. Her work has led her to travel across six continents, avidly capturing the essence of the cultures and natural worlds she encounters. As the environmental crisis has grown, she employs photography to raise awareness. Her visual stories of the natural world have increasingly become a cry for attention and change. “Time is running out. We are living in an environmental crisis with unprecedented changes. I aim my photography to remind us of our responsibility in working together as a whole to protect vulnerable wildlife from extinction, restore threatened ecosystems, and preserve communities with their unique and diverse traditions as a cultural legacy.