PhotoWILD Magazine is the creation of professional wildlife photographer, Jared Lloyd.

Beginning his career as a wildlife photographer and conservation journalist in the early 2000s, Jared’s work is widely published and can be found in publications around the world such as National Geographic, BBC Wildlife, Audubon Magazine, and many others around the world.

Combining his background in biology, natural history writing, and wildlife photography gave Jared a unique position in the field and he soon found himself guiding film crews for the BBC Natural History Unit, National Geographic, and PBS.

In response to a growing demand by aspiring wildlife photographers, Jared began leading photography workshops in 2009 to locations where he had extensive knowledge of the wildlife.

But it wasn’t long before he recognized that workshops were missing something thanks to the sensory overload photographers experienced in the field.

“I recognized pretty fast that no one hears you trying to talk about light, backgrounds, composition, or even technical settings when they are sitting on the side of a river with a huge bear running through the water straight toward their camera.”

But there was more to this under the surface.

“So many photographers now-a-days just travel the workshop circuit from one ‘canned experience’ to the next to build their social media portfolios without understanding how to find, approach, and put animals at ease. But if you can’t find the wildlife on your own, if you can’t put them at ease, if you can’t read their behavior, you’re going to have a very difficult time being a wildlife photographer outside of workshop experiences.”

To address these issues, in 2017, Jared founded the Journal of Wildlife Photography. But as the publication grew, and outside partners were brought into the company, the focus and direction of the Journal quickly moved away from Jared’s original goals and intentions for helping the wildlife photography community.

Wanting to return to his roots and the original goal of creating a publication that provided wildlife photographers articles, insight, and techniques that would have a real impact on their growth as photographers, Jared resigned and created PhotoWILD Magazine - a resource where beginning photographers could learn the fundamentals and advanced photographers could learn the finer points and nuances necessary to finally break free from the plateaus that hold them back.  

Drawing from his work in conservation journalism, for which Jared had won numerous press association awards for, PhotoWILD Magazine braids together the art and science of wildlife photography to teach readers skillsets that are beyond the scope of both field workshops and other publications on wildlife photography.

Long form essays are the heart and soul of PhotoWILD, and as such, each issue is roughly 100 pages of ad free articles that range across the spectrum of topics from mastering the new and sophisticated autofocus systems in mirrorless cameras to learning how to track animals to create photographs that would otherwise not be possible.

Today, PhotoWILD is more than just a magazine. Jared Lloyd, in collaboration with conservation photo-journalist Annalise Kaylor, created the bi-weekly PhotoWILD Podcast that can be found on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and iHeart Radio, and offers small group field workshops around the world.