Photography Expeditions into Wild Bolivia

There is a photograph at the front of Louise Emmons's monograph that I find I cannot stop returning to. This is what it has come to mean.

The northern park's rivers gave me one Noel Kempff. The south offers another — older, drier, almost unvisited.

On what wilderness asks of those who go into it, and what it offers in return.

The part of Noel Kempff that the river circuits never reach: the Huanchaca tableland, the Los Fierros savanna, and terrain that has had no visitors in a decade.

Twelve days on the blackwater rivers of northern Noel Kempff — macaws, river mammals, and some of the most biodiverse forest in the Amazon basin.

Six days through Bolivia's southern high desert and the Salar de Uyuni — flamingo lagoons, geothermal fields, wind-carved stone, and some of the clearest night skies on Earth.

A 4-day expedition through Bolivia's southern altiplano and the Salar de Uyuni, designed for participants of the 10th Chronic Hypoxia Symposium. A portion of each participant's fee supports research at the HAPPI-IPPA clinic.

A private 4-day overland journey through Bolivia's southern high desert and the Salar de Uyuni — designed for couples, documented by one of Bolivia's most accomplished photographers.

The northern park's rivers gave me one Noel Kempff. The south offers another — older, drier, almost unvisited.

On what wilderness asks of those who go into it, and what it offers in return.

The part of Noel Kempff that the river circuits never reach: the Huanchaca tableland, the Los Fierros savanna, and terrain that has had no visitors in a decade.

Twelve days on the blackwater rivers of northern Noel Kempff — macaws, river mammals, and some of the most biodiverse forest in the Amazon basin.

Six days through Bolivia's southern high desert and the Salar de Uyuni — flamingo lagoons, geothermal fields, wind-carved stone, and some of the clearest night skies on Earth.