- No stranger to far-flung photographic assignments, Jim Brandenburg, a veteran National Geographic contract photographer, has worked in remote wilderness areas around the globe. No place on earth has captured his imagination like Ellesmere Island, a virtually untouched ecosystem in the High Arctic. On Ellesmere Brandenburg found what he had searched a lifetime for - a pack of wild wolves without the wariness typical of their species. A twenty-year obsession of photographing wild wolves in their wilderness habitat ended on Ellesmere. The resulting White Wolf photographs have been the highlight of an illustrious photographic career.
- In those twenty years of waiting, Brandenburg has had over a thousand photographs published in books and in magazines like National Geographic, Audubon, Natural History and Life. Twice the winner of the coveted Magazine Photographer of the Year Award, he has been given ten national and international awards for White Wolf photographs including 1988 awards from The World Press Institute, Kodak, the British Broadcasting Corporation and The National Press Photographers Association.
- Brandenburg has photographed and produced a National Geographic documentary film (also titled White Wolf. Living with an Arctic Legend) detailing his Ellesmere Island experiences. Brandenburg is now working on a book documenting his worldwide travels as a magazine photographer. When not on assignment, Brandenburg divides his time between a studio in Minneapolis and his refuge, Ravenwood, in the boreal forest of northern Minnesota.
- White Wolf Living With An Arctic Legend was published in association with Ravenwood Studios, a production firm Brandenburg heads.
- Award-winning journalist and essayist James S. Thornton, White Wolf editor, has written about nature for Sports Illustrated, Minnesota Monthly, Sport and other magazines. Thornton holds degrees in Zoology and English.
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