IAN SHIVE, 30, is an award-winning photographer who has emerged at the forefront of outdoor lifestyle, landscape and conservation photography, having documented for the last several years the world’s diverse landscapes and the relationship that mankind has with nature. Shive's images have appeared in publications spanning the globe including Time Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, National Geographic, Popular Science and Outside Magazine. He is also a contributor to Popular Photography & Imaging, the world's largest photography magazine.

Shive's relentless pursuit of stunning imagery has taken him around the world - from assignments deep underwater in the Nevada desert to the equatorial jungles of the Malaysian rain forest to the far northern arctic mountainsides of Mt. McKinley in Alaska.  

In addition, Shive is a member of the International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP) based in Washington, D.C. whose membership represents the highest standards and ethics in nature photography today. Shive is also proud of his ongoing relationship with major environmental conservation groups such as The Nature Conservancy and the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA).

In 2008, Shive will be launching Aurora Novus, which he co-founded with the partners of Aurora Photos, the leading outdoor stock photography company in the world. Aurora Novus will be a new media production company specializing in short-form storytelling for journalists looking to take their stories to the web in the form of video.

Prior to his career in photography, Shive worked in marketing for Sony's Columbia Pictures for over eight years working on such films as the Spider-Man franchise, Memoirs of a Geisha, Pursuit of Happyness and over 60 other major motion pictures.

Most proud of his role in the preservation of the world’s wild lands, Shive’s philosophy is that the powerful medium of photography has shaped our view of the environment in the past and can continue to shape those views in the future.

Shive resides in Los Angeles.