My life’s mission:
To explore & illuminate the beauty of creation
and to challenge, inspire and enable others to do the same.
A riddle written by Austin, age 8
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WHAT IS IT?
You can’t pick it up but you can bounce it.
It can be soft or hard.
You can’t hold it but you can write with it.
It can be black, white or any color.
It weighs nothing but you can sharpen it
and cut through steel with it.
You can bend it but you can’t break it.
You can’t hear it but it can make your
voice heard all the way across the ocean.
You can’t see it but you can’t see anything without it.
Some of the smartest people in the world have studied it
their whole lives and they still don’t know what it is.
IT IS LIGHT.
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04.2022_Switchbacks Podcast Interview
04.2022 — Join us on the episode of Switchbacks Podcast with our guest Austin Mann. Austin's intuitive passion for innovation …
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05.2021_ NatGeo: Why yo-yo ma thinks culture and music can…
Why Yo-Yo Ma thinks culture and music can help protect the planet.
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07.2019_Hasselblad: Chasing Light w/ the Hassy X1D
Travel photographer Austin Mann’s philosophy is “chase light,” and that he did, all the way to the beautiful landscapes of Glacier National Park in western Montana…
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Profoto: Capturing the power of light with iPhone.
Austin is a veteran of shooting with the iPhone, and with the Profoto C1 Plus he’s going to teach the fundamentals of how light can….
Monahans, TX, USA
Serengeti, Tanzania, 2017.
NW Iceland, 2022.
Acadia NP, Maine, 2021.
Sydney, Australia, 2019.
Patagonia Region, Argentina, 2019.
Patagonia Region, Argentina, 2019.
Antarctica Peninsula, 2017.
At home in Kansas, 1993.
Agra, India, 2008.
Dar es Salaam, TZ, 2021.
Coastal Philippines, 2011.
Acadia NP, 2021.
Isle of Skye, Scotland, 2008.
At home in Kansas, 1987.
Coastal Philippines, 2011.
Fiji, 2011.
Lake Langano, Ethiopia, 2012.
Ghana, 2012.
Northern India, 2013.
South Island, New Zealand, 2011.
Nyungwe Forest, Rwanda, 2016.
Barcelona, Spain, 2019.
Milford, New Zealand, 2011.
South Georgia, Antarctic Region, 2017.
South Georgia, Antarctic Region, 2017.
South Georgia, Antarctic Region, 2017.
South Georgia, Antarctic Region, 2017.
Acadia NP, 2021.
Shackleton Falls, South Georgia Islands, 2017.
South Georgia, Antarctic Region, 2017.
South Georgia, Antarctic Region, 2017.
Ruaha NP, Tanzania, 2021.
Patagonia Region, Argentina, 2019.
Patagonia Region, Argentina, 2019.
Patagonia Region, Argentina, 2019.
Patagonia Region, Argentina, 2019.
Akagera NP, Rwanda 2019.
New Delhi, India, 2013.
Faroe Islands, 2019.
Ruaha NP, Tanzania, 2021.
Crested Butte, CO, 2021.
Dunton, CO, 2018.
Grand Canyon NP, 2021.
Grand Canyon NP, 2021.
Grand Canyon NP, 2021.
Patagonia Region, Argentina, 2019.
Patagonia Region, Argentina, 2019.
Patagonia Region, Argentina, 2019.
Patagonia Region, Chile, 2019.
Patagonia Region, Chile, 2019.
Faroe Islands, 2018.
Faroe Islands, 2018.
Faroe Islands, 2018.
Acadia NP, 2021.
Acadia NP, 2021.
Acadia NP, 2021.
Acadia NP, 2021.
Vermont, 2021.
Vatnajökull Glacier, Southern Iceland, 2021.
Over Tanzania, 2021.
Crested Butte, CO, 2021.
Dar Es Salaam Airport
Great Smoky Mountains NP, 2022.
Crested Butte, CO, 2021.
Crested Butte, CO, 2021.
Ruaha NP, Tanzania, 2021.
Texas, 2021.
Atacama Desert, Northern Chile, 2019.
Langöjokull Glacier, Iceland 2014.
Falkland Islands, 2017.
South Georgia, Antarctic Region, 2017.
Glacier NP, 2020.
Northern India, 2019.
Ruaha NP, Tanzania 2021.
Iceland, 2014.
South Island, New Zealand, 2019.
Volcanoes NP, Rwanda, 2016.
In-transit with Paul, 2019.
Jakarta, Indonesia, 2019.
British Virgin Islands, 2020.
Total Eclipse, South Tennessee, 2017.
Total Eclipse, South Tennessee, 2017.
Serengeti, Tanzania, 2016.
Mumbai, India 2019.
South Iceland, 2022.
Atacama Desert, Northern Chile 2019.
NYC, 2015.
Atacama Desert, Northern Chile 2019.
Atacama Desert, Northern Chile 2019.
In-transit, 2021.
Dar es Salaam, 2021.
Ruaha NP, 2021.
Atacama Desert, Northern Chile 2019.
Guilin, China 2019.
Atacama Desert, Northern Chile 2019.
Dallas, USA, 2015.
Barcelona, Spain, 2019.
Arches NP, 2018.
Glacier NP, 2018.
Perito Moreno Glacier, Argentina, 2017.
Iceland, 2018.
Dunton Hot Springs, CO, 2018.
Akagera NP, Rwanda, 2019.
Mumbai, India, 2019.
Mumbai, India, 2019.
Serengeti, Tanzania, 2016.
Serengeti, Tanzania, 2016.
Santorini, Greece, 2008.
Nepal, 2008.
South Island, New Zealand, 2019.
Ruaha NP, 2021.
Crested Butte, CO, 2021.
South Island, New Zealand, 2019.
Jakarta, Indonesia, 2019.
British Virgin Islands, 2020.
Dallas, 2014.
Santorini, Greece, 2008.
Lalibela, Ethiopia, 2008.
Northern Ethiopia, 2008.
Blue Nile Falls, Ethiopia, 2008.
The Highlands, Scotland, 2008.