Born in Muncie, Indiana and raised in and around New York City, Sheridan Wright is an American photographer known for capturing both traditional cultures and the natural world in heightened states of reality.

Having traveled across Asia and Africa as a relief worker throughout his adolescence, Wright’s work is inspired by a unique worldview formed by being a perennial foreigner amongst natives. As the camera lens became Wright’s instrument for processing that which was unfamiliar, he honed a signature, diorama-like style of framing to bring a sense of order to an otherwise chaotic world.

His body of work includes a collection of meticulously framed images of wildlife across the Serengeti; a series of intimate, intensely anthropomorphic portraits of the gravely endangered mountain gorillas in Virunga National Park; a sprawling study on the lives and customs of young Maasai warriors in Tanzania; a collection of aerials capturing the “stunning toxicity” of Tanzania’s Lake Natron, home to uniquely colored microorganisms that make the lake uninhabitable to all but one species of endangered flamingos; and a compendium of images exploring the deeply humanlike family life of the fabled, free-roaming chimpanzees of Tanzania’s Mahale Mountains National Park.

Sheridan actively contributes to conservation foundations including Serengeti Watich, BigLife, and Virunga National Park.

Wright splits his time between Miami, Florida and Bridgehampton, New York.