Annie Griffiths Belt

Born and raised in Minneapolis, photographer Annie Griffiths Belt earned her bachelor of arts in photojournalism from the University of Minnesota. Since then she has photographed dozens of magazine and book projects for National Geographic, including magazine stories on Lawrence of Arabia, Baja California, Israel’s Galilee, Petra, Sydney, Vancouver, England’s Lake District, and Jerusalem. Her work was featured in the book Women Photographers at National Geographic.

Belt’s photographs have also appeared in Life, GEO, Smithsonian, Fortune, Time, Paris Match, Stern, and many other publications. She has contributed photographs to numerous books, including A Day in the Life of Ireland, The Power to Heal, Women in the Material World and A Day in the Life of Italy. Belt also produces annual photographic calendars for Church World Service and Habitat for Humanity.

Belt has received awards from the National Press Photographers Association, the Associated Press, the National Organization for Women, the University of Minnesota, and the White House News Photographers Association. With a grant from National Geographic Society’s Expeditions Council, Belt and author Barbara Kingsolver created Last Stand: America’s Virgin Lands, a National Geographic book celebrating the last pristine wilderness in North America. Proceeds from the book have raised more than a quarter of a million dollars for land conservation grants.

In addition to her photography, Belt has served as photo editor for more than a dozen book projects. She lectures and teaches photography workshops regularly, most recently in Tuscany. She was featured in a PBS documentary while in Israel on assignment for National Geographic.

Belt makes her home in Great Falls, Virginia, with her husband, National Geographic senior editor Don Belt, and their two children, Lily and Charlie.