John Wendle
Frontline Freelance Register
Dakar, Senegal
John Wendle is a freelance photographer, writer, videographer and video editor. He specializes in conflict and climate change reporting.
His work has appeared in National Geographic, Scientific American, TIME, Al Jazeera America, Al Jazeera English, Le Monde, Business Week, The Washington Post, Channel 4, ABC, The New York Times, CNN, BBC, National Geographic, GQ, Marie Claire, Monocle and many others. His photos are archived at Corbis Images.
John has nearly a decade of experience working in the republics of the former Soviet Union, working in Central Asia, the Caucasus, Russia, and Ukraine as well as five years in Afghanistan. He speaks fluent Russian and some Dari.
John has a Masters Degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

- Breaking news
- Conflict
- Crisis
- Editorial
- Environment
- Interview
- Landscape
- Medical
- Military embed
- RISC training
- Video capture
- Wildlife