Editorial and Fine Art Photography including Nature/Wildlife, Portraiture, Commercial/Editorial, Landscape, Fine Art, Photojournalism, Street Photography based in Nairobi, Kenya & New York City.
I have been professionally photographing these subjects since 1975.
My first published work was of the construction of the Alaska Pipeline in 1975. My photos have appeared in newspapers, magazines, corporate reports and non-profit publications including Turkana Basin Institute, National Geographic, Miami Herald,, World Meteorological Organization, Science for Africa Foundation, New-Mass Media Publications, New Line Cinema, Atlantic Releasing, Vestron Pictures, SAPIENS, El Karama Ranch in Kenya, Kenya Wildlife Services, American Airlines, World Health Organization, Democratic and Republican National Parties, Port Authority of NY and NJ, Alyeska Pipeline Consortium, Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Research Center, Geophysical Services Incorporated, Bechtel, Arctic Construction, Canadian Embassy, Coalition for the Homeless, Philadelphia Children’s Hospital, Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, Paine-Webber, The Cloisters of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, BBrood International Bakery, Medieval Guild of New York, Idaho Conservation League.
My photography has been exhibited in Na York City, Seattle, Italy, France, and Massachusetts.
I was raised in Washington Heights in New York City and reside in Kenya,
Proud member of the National Press Photographers Association, North American Nature Photography Association, and Nikon Professional Services.
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Published Work
National Geographic
One excavation at a time, Isaiah Nengo is building a fossil record of Africa’s early inhabitants—and sharing expertise with its present ones.
The death of anthropologist Isaiah Nengo was announced in a tweet from the Turkana Basin Institute, where he was associate director. This profile of Nengo, a National Geographic Explorer, appears in the February issue of National Geographic.
Nengo teaches at New York’s Stony Brook University and Kenya’s Turkana University College. He also runs a master’s program in human evolutionary biology that was launched at Turkana University in 2017. Aiming to build local expertise and research capacity, the program has admitted eight students so far, all Kenyans, six of them women. Nengo would like to add students from neighboring countries in future years. “Training Africans from East Africa is not charity,” he says. “It’s actually essential to the science.”
The National Geographic Society has funded the work of paleoanthropologist Isaiah Nengo since 2018. Learn more about its support of Explorers researching history and culture at natgeo.com/impact.
This story appears in the February 2022 issue of National Geographic magazine.