For more than forty years, Paul Souders has traveled around the world and across all seven continents as a professional photographer. His images have appeared around the globe in a wide variety of publications, including National Geographic and other international magazines, as well as thousands of publishing and advertising projects. 

Traveling solo in a 22-foot powerboat named C-Sick, he has covered thousands of miles of remote coastline photographing polar bears in the Canadian arctic. Those travels were the subject of his first book, Arctic Solitaire: A Boat, A Bay, and the Quest for the Perfect Bear, and the images have drawn wide acclaim, including first place awards at the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition in 2011 and 2013, the National Geographic Photo of the Year contest in 2013 and Grand Prize in the 2014 Big Picture Competition.

Recently, he sailed the 43-foot steel yacht S/V Ocean View from Maine through the Canadian Maritimes to Newfoundland, before settling off alone across the North Atlantic to Greenland. He dedicated two summers to documenting Greenland’s rapidly-changing glaciers, coastline, and wildlife before turning east toward the entrance to Canada’s Northwest Passage. After circling Baffin and Bylot Islands, he turned south along the storm-swept Labrador wilderness toward the boat’s home port in Newfoundland. The journey will be the subject of the upcoming book and short documentary North Solo.

Over the last four decades he has mounted dozens of solo photographic expeditions and visited more than 65 countries. Paul has been kissed by dolphins, slapped by penguins, head-butted by walrus, terrorized by lions and menaced by vertebrates large and small. He once spent 27 hours digging a bogged safari truck out of the Seregenti mud using only a sauce pan

He still thinks he has the best job in the world.