McPherson Public Library

ARTIST STATEMENT

Molly Foster is a zookeeper, photographer, and bird nerd from Hutchinson, Kansas. She started her journey into zoo and wildlife photography as a high school student, when her uncle gave her an old DLSR camera.

Self-taught, she always has at least one camera on her as she goes out into the field for birding excursions, hikes, zoo and aquarium trips, and conservation research projects.

For her, a camera is just as powerful of a tool for conservation as in-the-field research and zoological institutions. She seeks to capture the resilient beauty of nature in its many forms and bring to light the vital importance of the animals and plants we share this world with.

“It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it.”

– Edward Abbey