Wolves: Photography by Ronan Donovan

Wolves: Photography by Ronan Donovan

September 26, 2026 – January 10, 2027

Baker Exhibit Hall

“Wolves: Photography by Ronan Donovan” options Ronan Donovan’s gorgeous photographs and movies of untamed wolves within the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and Ellesmere Island within the excessive Canadian Arctic. Since 2014, National Geographic Explorer and photographer Ronan Donovan has examined the connection between wild wolves and people to be able to higher perceive the animals, our shared historical past, and what drives the persistent human-wolf battle.

The exhibition, created by National Geographic Society and the National Museum of Wildlife Art, will show photographs and movies—highlighting the distinction between wolves that dwell in perceived competitors with people and wolves that dwell with out human intervention.“Wolves: Photography by Ronan Donovan” will introduce guests to the day by day lives of wolves within the Arctic—how they hunt, play, journey, and relaxation in one of many harshest environments on Earth—with unparalleled intimacy.

About Ronan Donavan

A discipline biologist turned conservation photographer and filmmaker, Ronan Donovan has explored the human relationship to nature and wildlife on all seven continents. Donovan’s ardour for conserving wild animals and wild locations was ignited as a baby rising up in Vermont and later throughout his years as a wildlife discipline biologist researching noticed owls and chimpanzees. He transitioned to visible storytelling as a technique to amplify the wildlife researchers and conservationists that Donovan collaborated with. In addition to his National Geographic work on wolves, Donovan has documented human-chimpanzee conflicts in Uganda, and the legacy work of primatologist Dian Fossey centered on mountain gorillas in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda. Donovan strives to reconnect viewers to the pure world by way of the lives of our fellow social mammals to focus on our shared previous and interwoven future.