In Petra, Jordan, a Bedouin man sits atop Al Deir, the Monastery.
Photograph by Annie Griffiths Belt

For the past three decades, award-winning National Geographic photographer Annie Griffiths Belt has circled the globe capturing stunning images and living one adventure after another—from traveling with Bedouins in Jordan to swimming with sea lions in the Galápagos Islands. Along the way she married writer Don Belt, gave birth to Lily and Charlie, and kept right on going with youngsters in tow. "I have learned," she observes, "that even without a shared language, it's easy to let people know that their children are beautiful, their homes are lovely...and their stories are worth sharing with the world."

Based on the new National Geographic book, this outdoor photographic exhibition tracks Belt's career from her early work in the Midwestern United States to recent work raising awareness about refugees in remote corners of the world.