Dana Cama

Dana grew up in New York, along a canal that led to the Atlantic Ocean. Her father was a fisherman, and from the time she was very young, he would take her out on his boat to go fishing, clamming, etc. Dana spent a lot of time out on the water and watched the ecosystem of her home change drastically during her childhood—especially after Hurricane Sandy. It went from a place she could swim and catch frogs to a place of devastation and pollution. Dana spent a lot of time doing beach cleanups, helping the local wildlife, and photographing as much as she could along the way. Seeing this magical oasis she loved as a kid transform so quickly, she knew she wanted to spend her life doing everything she could to protect other places just like it.

Dana studied photography at Parsons School of Design, spending her first few years at school minoring in environmental science before graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.
As a freelance photographer, Dana worked with nonprofits that brought her to places like Botswana, Yellowstone, Haiti, the Upper Peninsula in Michigan, and more to tell visual stories of people and animals. In addition to her assignments, she’s spent months camping all over the U.S., tracking and photographing wildlife, to later sell prints and donate most of the proceeds to different conservation projects. Doing so has taught her so much about animal behavior, people's relationship to nature, conservation, and travel. Dana's job as a social media manager has given her the experience to build and manage social media followings using photo, video, and written content to generate engaged communities and get them excited about conservation.

Dana's ultimate travel highlight was getting to spend hours with a sow black bear and her three cubs in Alberta, Canada—two black cubs and one rare white cub—as they ate and played for hours alone in the backcountry. She knew the white cub was something typically only seen on the coast of British Columbia and that she was experiencing something extremely rare. Some of Dana's other nature travel highlights include hiking Machu Picchu, meditating with the brown bears of the Katmai coast, watching wild dogs hunt in Botswana, and swimming in the Cenotes of Mexico.

Dana is an animal nerd through and through. She's super passionate about conservation and the unbelievable resilience of nature. She is fascinated by keystone species, rewilding and how nature can heal the planet. She is also really interested in human-wildlife conflict and how we all can be more educated and thus more prepared to coexist with animals while we live and recreate in their habitats.

Dana lives in her camper van traveling around North America so she can spend 364 days a year recreating outside. You can find her hiking with her dogs, or out photographing in the backcountry!
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Photographing bears on an Alaska Grizzly Encounter: Kodiak to Katmai adventure.Suited up to photograph Alaska's grizzlies.The Leading Ladies of Alaska Bear Camp.Surrounded by hippos in the Okavango Delta, Botswana.At the base of the Athabasca Glacier, in the Canadian Rockies.Photographing elephants in Zimbabwe.Visiting a wild burro sanctuary outside of Joshua Tree National Park.High in the tree canopies of Costa Rica.Looking for mountain goats at the top of Mt. Baker in Washington.Photographing wolves in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
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