Seeing It All: Women Photographers Expose Our Planet brings together eleven photographers: Ami Vitale, Cristina Mittermeier, Suzi Eszterhas, Tui De Roy, Camille Seaman, Esther Horvath, Jo-Anne McArthur, Britta Jaschinski, Daisy Gilardini, Jen Guyton and Morgan Heim. Their work moves between conservation science, wildlife reportage and long-term documentary projects. Goff Books published the 160-page hardcover in 2023, in connection with the BigPicture natural-world photography competition and its tenth year.

The book declines to treat the polished nature photograph as an end in itself. More than 125 images are sequenced so that abundance sits beside disappearance, icebergs beside Indigenous portraits, animal sanctuaries beside climate researchers. The editing links what is seen to what is hidden, and travels from Africa to the Arctic, through deep oceans to distant islands.

Each photographer receives room beyond the plate page: a short profile, a manifesto-like statement of commitment, and behind-the-scenes notes on how particular pictures came about. Rhonda Rubinstein writes the introduction; Rebecca Solnit and Indre Viskontas contribute essays; Sylvia Earle provides a foreword. Sophie Stafford, Peg Tyre and Gayle Laird are credited as editors, while the photographers remain the authors of their own accounts.

Three qualities recommend the book to a collection. The roster is wide — oceans, polar ice, forests, captivity — and the eleven are presented as a set rather than an arbitrary anthology. The volume amounts to a group portrait of women working in a field long framed as male, recorded in their own words as well as in pictures. And the object itself is substantial: hardbound, 160 pages, built for repeated return rather than a single pass.