Biography
Esha Chiocchio is drawn to the human spirit and the diversity of world cultures. She is passionate about environmental conservation and the preservation of traditional wisdom. She has photographed around the globe for publications, non-profit organizations and commercial clients including National Geographic, Newsweek and Bonefish Grill. In addition to her work as a documentary photographer, Esha teaches photography to culturally and socioeconomically diverse high school students around the world with the Fredric Roberts Photography Workshops.
Since earning a master’s degree in Sustainable Communities in 2013, she wrote The Forest and Water Climate Adaptation Plan for the City of Santa Fe, served on the mayor-appointed Sustainable Santa Fe Commission, co-founded Renewable Energy Day at the New Mexico State Capitol, and continues to teach children and adults about climate science and sustainability.
She is now bridging her passions by using photography to highlight climate solutions. Good Earth, her current project, profiles eight land stewards in New Mexico who are working to rebuild soils through regenerative practices that draw carbon from the atmosphere and sequester it as soil organic matter. This strategy improves resilience and productivity while reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide and is one of our most promising climate solutions.
Esha lives in a co-housing community in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her husband, photographer Jamey Stillings, and their two children, Zubin and Ciela.
PUBLICATIONS
National Geographic Magazine, Spain/Special Best World Images 2017
Photo Distric News TASTE competition grand prize winner article 2016
ArMen La Bretagne Eclairée, June 2014
Le Roman de la Fraise: 300 ans d’aventure, 2014
Newsweek, May 2006
US Airways Magazine, April 2006
One People Many Journeys (Lonely Planet) September 2005
National Geographic Traveler, November/December 2003
National Geographic: Through the Lens, October 2003
America 24/7, October 2003
The Santa Fean, April 2003
National Geographic Magazine, June 2001
AWARDS
The FENCE Santa Fe, 2017
PDN Taste, Grand Prize Winner 2016
PDN 30 Emerging Photographers 2004
EDUCATION
Master of Arts, Sustainable Communities, Goddard College, 2013
The Eddie Adams Workshop, participant 2002
Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, operations/course assistant 2000-2001
Peace Corps Volunteer, Mali, West Africa, 1997-1999
BA in Anthropology and French, University of Colorado, 1996