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As Photo Ark turns 20, Joel Sartore photographs 18,000 animal species

For 20 years, Joel Sartore has been on a quest: to photograph every animal species in human care, and then some. This year, on the 20th anniversary of the Photo Ark somewhere in Australia, Sartore photographed the project s 18,000th animal. He’s not totally sure which one pushed…