We have been educated our entire lives about the difficulties our people and our world face. Challenges stand before us that seem impossible to surmount. What are we to do with all of this knowledge? My mission, through my photography, exploration, and lecturing is to move people to take action, to inspire people to stand up in the face of overwhelming challenges and accomplish together what we cannot accomplish alone. To inspire is key, because without it who will stand up first? I take photos to show people how I see the world, in all of its beauty, and in it’s many different faces. I use the profits from my fashion and advertising photography to fund my conservation projects around the world, and to supplement the grants and donations received from those who share my desire to preserve what we have. As humans we are not the owners of this planet, the planet is not ours to do with as we will. We are not destroying the planet, we are destroying our ability to survive on it. Earth will be here long after we are gone.
Ben Horton is the first recipient of the National Geographic Young Explorers grant for work he's done involving Shark Poaching in Cocos Island, he continues to chase his dreams of exploring the world. In the spring of 2008 Ben was a part of the National Geographic sponsored Ellesmere Island Expedition in the High Arctic, Ben and a team of explorers traveled by dogsled to document the effects of global warming. Ben continues to search for new and exciting adventures that can be used to inspire the world and to challenge humanities self centered approach to our place on this planet.
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