Emily McCulliss · Nature Photographer & Expedition Host
The wild is not the destination. It's the mentor.
Bring the wild home with fine-art prints, go there yourself on a small-group expedition, or step into stories from the field.
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Chamoun Gallery, MontrealNow showing:Variations at D'art Gallery, Denver · through Nov 1
We've never been more connected, or further from the wild.
Something shifts when you stand before a bull elephant, or meet a humpback eye to eye. Emily has spent years in those places, across all seven continents, so she can bring that moment to you: on your wall, on an expedition, or in a story.
The wild is calling. Answer it your way.
Wherever you are, there's a way to be part of it.
Bring it home
Nature Photography
Limited and Open Edition prints, made to live with.
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Go there
Join an Expedition
Small journeys into wild places, with ELEM×HU.
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Step inside the story
Storyboard
Immersive visual stories from the field.
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Care for it
The Whale Project
Support the whale conservation work in Maui.
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Meet Emily
Emily McCulliss is a nature and wildlife photographer, visual storyteller, and expedition guide based on Maui, Hawaii. Her work lives at the intersection of wild places and the people drawn to them, and a deep belief that something shifts in us when we step into truly unfiltered nature.
Her background spans marine biology, biology, chemistry, neuroscience, psychology, and business. But it was in the waters off Mexico, eye-to-eye with blue marlins and humpback whales, that her purpose became clear- to connect people to extraordinary encounters in nature, and the moments of recognition that follow.
"Inspire your today to change your tomorrow."Read her story
Featured work
From the wall to the table: a few pieces from across the collection.
Featured expeditions
Stay Close to the Work
The Wild Within Newsletter
Emily's work keeps growing - speaking engagements, new volumes, active field projects, and new expeditions opening each season. The mailing list is where all of it lands first.
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The Wildlife Photography Guide
Join, and she'll send the Wildlife Photography Guide: forty pages on light, focus, composition, and the presence that comes before all of it.