(CURRENTLY BEING EDITED) Hello, I’m Noah Edwards, a 25-year-old photographer and conservationist based in Miami, Florida.

Growing up in Switzerland, my weekends were spent backpacking throughout the Swiss Alps with my mother, who continues to out-hike me year after year. I quickly recognized how fortunate I was to be spending time in these wild, alpine environments so I picked up a camera at 12-years-old to document our adventures. I also quickly learned how fragile, yet vital these ecosystems were. Every year, the hike to our favorite glaciers would get further, and further, and further. I began using my camera as a tool to share these rugged environments with those who may never see them with their own eyes and hoped that my work would motivate others to think twice about what’s at stake. I never expected my photography work to directly make someone care about our natural world, but my hope was that my photos would at least motivate someone to embark on their own adventure, whether that be in the Swiss Alps or in their home town, and recognize the beauty and value of untouched landscapes and the wildlife that inhabit them. Few people are eager to protect something they don’t know or understand.

In 2023, I graduated from Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana. For four years, I found myself in the heart of some of America's most breathtaking natural beauty. I continued to hone my photography and storytelling skills throughout the National Parks, State Parks, and public lands of Montana and Wyoming. When weekends weren’t spent playing beer-pong or doing keg-stands, they were spent schlepping up mountains, driving dirt roads hoping for animal sightings, and camping on remote public lands. Good times.

I now live in Miami, Florida. As the Marketing Manager for Miami Waterkeeper, an environmental non-profit, I leverage my photography and marketing skills to protect and preserve what’s left of wild Florida, from the Everglades to Biscayne Bay. Our campaigns range from clean water and habitat protection to sea-level rise readiness and environmental justice. A recent, major victory was stopping the United States Army Corps of Engineers from pursuing the largest ever permitted coral reef destruction in U.S. history. 10 million corals were spared from being buried in dredging sediment.