Hi, I'm Phil Hopkins. I've explored a wide range of topics as a photographer and journalist.

The majority of my work is self-initiated. It is focused on capturing the natural world with a photographer's eye and a storyteller's perspective.

My photos have been carried across the United Press International wire service, displayed in the pages of numerous newspapers and magazines, have been represented internationally by the Black Star photo agency and have appeared on NationalGeographic.com and Expeditions.com. For many years I was a member of the American Society of Magazine Photographers.

Articles I've written have appeared in Cousteau Society publications, business journals, consumer magazines, Web publications, annual reports and a variety of technical periodicals. I've won nine Southern California Journalism Awards for news reporting and commentary writing.

Expeditions I've participated in have explored the remote Line Islands of Kiribati in the South Pacific, the seldom-visited temperate rainforests of British Columbia, and I've documented the 2017 total eclipse of the sun for the Eclipse Megamovie project. I photographed another total solar eclipse in 2024 for the feature documentary film Totality as well as for the NASA-sponsored Eclipse Megamovie.

I am currently focused on capturing images of environments and the diverse wildlife impacted by ongoing climate change.