Kip Evans
Award-winning filmmaker, photographer, and explorer Kip Evans has led or participated in more than 70 expeditions throughout the world, including recent assignments in the Arctic, Patagonia, Indonesia, and the Galapagos Islands. As a photographer, he has worked on dozens of National Geographic Society projects since 1998, including the five-year Sustainable Seas project to explore and document U.S. National Marine Sanctuaries. Kip has also served as an expert for National Geographic expeditions and Putney Student Travel to Antarctica. In 2014, Kip lived underwater for 17 days in the Aquarius underwater laboratory as an aquanaut with Fabien Cousteau’s Mission 31. His photographs from the expedition were featured in hundreds of publications throughout the world, including the front cover of TIME for Kids and a double-page spread in TIME magazine. From 2008-2020 he was the director of photography and expeditions for Mission Blue. He was honored as the 2017 Ocean Champion by the San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival and in 2020 was selected as an Explorer’s Club Fellow.