Jon Bio

Jon Golden has spent 30+ years behind the lens, working as a professional photographer across more than 70 countries and logging over 20,000 miles at sea. His work has taken him to some of the world’s most remote and unforgiving landscapes — the Canadian Arctic’s Baffin Island, the Gobi,  Namibian and Patagonian deserts, Kamchatka in Russia’s Far East, the Peruvian Amazon, and the Westfjords of Iceland.

His images have appeared in National Geographic, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among other major publications. Jon was a founding member of LOOK3 — Festival of the Photograph.

A significant thread running through Jon’s career has been his commitment to nonprofit work, producing imagery for organizations including the Building Goodness Foundation, Firefly Kids, Impossible2Possible, The Nature Conservancy, and the Amazon Aid Foundation — with projects spanning Haiti, Guatemala, Louisiana, and Russia.

Jon studied Environmental Science and Computer Science at the University of Virginia. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he cooks, travels, and plans his next expedition.