Tim Laman is a contributing photographer for National Geographic magazine and makes films for the BBC Natural History Unit and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. He has won numerous awards for his photography and cinematography, including Wildlife Photographer of the Year in 2016. He is an associate of Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology, a fellow of the Explorers Club, a founding member of the International League of Conservation Photographers, and a founder of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Birds-of-Paradise Project. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.