Cindy-Lou Dale

Beautiful landscapes have been written about and photographed a million times. I'm more interested in what lies beyond the view.

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For more than three decades, my work has taken me across continents in search of stories that reveal something deeper about the world we share. Sometimes those stories emerge from conservation and wildlife. Sometimes from a forgotten tradition, an extraordinary individual or a community quietly changing the course of its own future.

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As both a journalist and photographer, I don't arrive looking for pretty pictures. I arrive asking questions.

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The stories that interest me most are often the ones hidden in plain sight—the stories editors didn't know they needed until they saw them.

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My work has appeared in newspapers, magazines and books around the world, where words and photographs come together to create narratives that inform, challenge and inspire - because the world doesn't need another photograph of a destination. It needs the stories that give that place meaning.