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Hope Ryden photos, including production stills, premiere photos and other event photos, publicity photos, behind-the-scenes, and more.
Jun 18, 2017 · Ryden once described how she learned at Drew Associates to observe and capture real life happening without interfering in it. She took that philosophy into the field as a gifted nature photographer, often spending weeks camped out in the wilds observing animals she wanted to learn and write about.
Hope Elaine Ryden (August 1, 1929 – June 18, 2017) was an American documentary producer and wildlife activist. She contributed to various publications including National Geographic, Audubon, Smithsonian, Defenders and The New York Times. [1]
Hope Ryden's wildlife photos have appeared in the National Geographic, Smithsonian, Audubon Magazine, the New York Times Magazine, and many other national magazines. In addition, all of her twenty-three nature books are illustrated with her work, as are many books written by other authors.
filmmaker: hope ryden Hope Ryden, filmmaker and photographer, discovered the Lovings’ story in 1965. Working at the time with Robert Drew & Associates, she persuaded Drew that the Lovings’ story was critical.
Her documentaries featured the actress Jane Fonda at 25 as she prepared for her starring role in The Fun Couple on Broadway, two Peace Corps nurses in Malaya, and a Boston man who saved some 9,000 animals in Suriname from starvation or drowning.
Losing Hope Ryden is calamitous for the wild animals she loved so deeply, and whose lives she so intimately understood from her years with them in the wild. As a compassionate observer of their individuality, Hope was able to communicate their personhood even to people who didn’t agree that animals had any.
