The Artist
Drew Fulton is a photographer with a passion for exploring the natural world. He is an avid birder and lifelong naturalist and brings that knowledge and experience to his photography. As a Thomas J. Watson Fellow, Fulton has completed a year of extensive travel throughout Australia searching for and photographing Australia’s numerous endemic birds. During that year, Fulton photographed more than half of Australia’s over 300 endemic species and saw nearly 600 species of birds.
Previously, Fulton earned a B.A. with honors from Bowdoin College where he designed his own major combining environmental science with photography and ecology. For his honors thesis, Fulton produced a book of photographs and essays about the Florida Everglades, a project that included a five month residency in Everglades National Park. The project culminated in a solo exhibition at Bowdoin College of over 100 prints and earned him the Richard F. Martel Jr. Memorial Prize. Fulton regularly returns to the Everglades region to continue working in this unique ecosystem.
Fulton continues to explore the world’s diverse ecosystems and has been awarded a National Geographic Society Young Explorer’s Grant for his work in Monteverde, Costa Rica. Through his collaboration with a field biologist and videographer, he has created educational media from the cloud forest canopy to inspire the next generation of scientists. Since it’s launch, nearly 30,000 visitors have used Canopy in the Clouds to explore the cloud forests.
After the project in Costa Rica, his passion for tree climbing continued to grow. Today, he continues to climb regularly and has worked on multiple film crews documenting California’s giant sequoias and coastal redwoods. When Fulton is not in the field, he lives in Ithaca, NY and teaches classes for Cornell Outdoor Education including tree climbing and photography workshops.