Carole Devillers

PHOTOGRAPHER - AUTHOR - TOUR LEADER - EXPLORER - CAVER - LECTURER - ADVENTURER

IN THE PAST FOUR DECADES, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CONTRIBUTOR and award-winning photographer Carole Devillers has trekked tropical trails, witnessed voodoo rites and explored Haitian caves.
She has ridden jungle rivers in dugout canoes and camels in the desert. She received her pilot license for single-engine plane, and has flown in hot air balloons and volunteered with their chasing crews.
She guided Captain Jacques Cousteau and his Calypso crew when they explored Haiti. She also guided a National Geographic staff writer in the sub-Saharan (Sahel) region of Burkina Faso (West Africa) where she sojourned, riding her own camel "to go to work".

Recorded in the pages of National Geographic Magazine, her photographs and experience with the Sahelians of Burkina Faso (West Africa), with the Wayana Indians in the Amazonian forest of French Guiana, and with the voodooists of Haiti as she joined them in their purification pilgrimages, bring to life her passion for exploration and world cultures.

She was featured in the National Geographic's Cable TV program EXPLORER "On Assignment..." as they follow her documenting Haitian voodoo pilgrimages, and was invited to give her presentation "Crossing the Culture Gap" at National Geographic Society's Grosvenor Auditorium in Washington D.C. for their "Masters of Photography" series.

As a ten-year correspondent for Reuters News Pictures in Haiti, from 1990 to 2000, she covered the political unrest and street battles in Port-au-Prince, during which she was shot at, held at gunpoint and had film confiscated.

2006 saw the beginning of Adventure Photo Expeditions as a new service offered by Carole to benefit photo enthusiasts and world travelers.

In 2009 she co-created and co-organized a program of conservation and promotion of Haiti's underground heritage The Caves of Haiti and since then has been involved in specific projects of cave exploration and photography in Haiti.

After living in various parts of the world, Carole is currently based in Florida, USA.

In addition to various international publications and calendars, Carole's work has been published in the following books:
"The Odyssey - 100 years of photography as art" by National Geographic (1988)
"Women Photographers at National Geographic" by National Geographic (2001)
"The Geography of Religions" by National Geographic (2004)
"Mother, Daughter, Sister, Bride" by National Geographic (2005)
"America 24/7" and "New Mexico 24/7" by DK Publishing (2004)
"Visions of Santa Fe" by Squarebooks (2005)
"The World's Greatest B&W Photography" by The Spider Awards (2007)
"The caves of the SouthEast of Haiti" Deschamps Editions (2013)
"The story of the caves of Haiti, told by the little water drop" by Carole Devillers, Educa Vision Editions (2014)
"Anna" a series of 10 children's photo books by Carole Devillers, EDITHA Editions (Haiti)(2011-2016)
"Rodens, Super Heros" EDITHA Editions (2016)
"Tout sur La Vie des Oiseaux" EDITHA Editions (2018)
"Tout sur Le Cocotier" EDITHA Editions (2018)
"Tout sur La Soupe de Giraumon" EDITHA Editions (2018)
"Glimpses of Iconic Birds of Florida" Educa Vision Editions (2019)

She is a winner in The FENCE 2019 exhibit representing Gulf Coast Regional Winners, with her 5-photo series "Birds of Florida in Breeding Glory" displayed from Nov 2019 through Jan 2020 at Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota FL.

She is the recipient of several awards from Expo New Mexico, the Hubbard Museum of the American West, the Digital Fine Art Society of New Mexico and the B&W Spider Awards.

She is represented in the photo collection of the Hubbard Museum of the American West and of private national and international collectors.

Her adventure travels and exploration are the subjects of slides and powerpoint presentations she gives at various venues in the USA and abroad, upon invitation.