836 Kempton St. Spring Valley CA 91977
The meeting will start promptly at 7 pm, but we’ll open the room at 6:30 pm for setup and social time. Our meeting room is near the back entrance of the Spring Valley Library. When you enter the parking lot, go around the left side of the building and park in the back. You’ll see the open doors to our meeting room.
Join award-winning wildlife photographer Ron Garrison for a fascinating look back at a remarkable journey to one of the world’s most remote conservation sites. In 1990, while working for the Zoological Society of San Diego, Garrison traveled to a Przewalski’s horse reserve in the Gobi Desert of northwest China. His presentation follows that expedition, offering a glimpse into central and western China at a time when few Western photographers had access to these regions.
Along the way, Garrison shares photographs and stories from his travels, highlighting the conservation efforts surrounding the endangered Przewalski’s horse, the world’s last truly wild horse species. This presentation also provides historical context for his later visit to a Przewalski’s horse reserve in Ukraine in 1991.
About Ron Garrison
Ron Garrison served as Photographer, Manager, and Curator of the Photographic Services Department for the Zoological Society of San Diego for 38 years before retiring in 2002. During his career, he documented the San Diego Zoo and Safari Park’s extraordinary collection of wildlife while traveling to all seven continents to photograph endangered species and conservation projects in their native habitats.
His work has taken him from photographing giant pandas in China and rhinoceroses in Sumatra to polar bears in the Arctic and big cats across Africa. Before joining the Zoological Society, Garrison worked as both a still and motion picture photographer for the U.S. Army, KOLD-TV in Tucson, and Ryan Aeronautical Company, where he documented NASA’s Mercury and Apollo programs.
Garrison’s photographs have appeared in publications including National Geographic, Smithsonian, Time, Life, Newsweek, and numerous scientific journals, books, and educational publications. He is also the author of Secrets of Zoo Photography and continues to volunteer with the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance’s Photographic Archives.