Photographer Braves the Frozen Arctic to Capture Incredible Wildlife Portraits

Photographer Joshua Holko has dedicated his career to photographing polar and sub-polar wildlife, and the results are breathtaking. He was kind enough to take time out of his adventures to share his work and insights gathered through years of photographing in some of the world’s most inhospitable places with PetaPixel readers. Joshua Holko is a wildlife photographer whose impressive portfolios spans continents. However, his interest in photography was organic, born of his love for the outdoors. Holko grew up in Melbourne, spending most of his youth outdoors enjoying solitude and the scale of nature. It was his first trip to Antarctica, which was the turning point. “I remember standing on the ice, completely surrounded by silence, the light bouncing off the snow in this surreal, soft way, and penguins waddling by like they owned the place (which, let’s be honest, they do). That moment hit me hard. I knew this was what I wanted to do: tell the stories of these places most people never ge...