Annie Griffiths is a storyteller who draws on her extraordinary career working as a National Geographic photographer and global advocate for women. Her writing is remarkably intimate, as she welcomes readers into the world she has experienced, highlighting moments of humor, resilience and beauty.
Annie is the author of four photography books, including the bestseller, Simply Beautiful Photographs. She writes a weekly Substack called You’re Not That Nice, and hopes to publish her memoir, Available Light, in 2026.
You’re Not That Nice
It's time to ditch the niceties and bring on the real talk—with a heaping side of laughter! Pull up a cup of coffee and join me every Wednesday morning for a warm, witty and wild conversation on the dangers of being too damn agreeable.
Simply Beautiful
“Simply Beautiful Photographs is beyond simple. It is brought to us by National Geographic and Annie Griffiths; both the embodiments of supreme talent. Anything by Nat. Geo. is amazing, in my book, and Annie Griffiths is a stellar photographer and writer… You must open this book for yourself and take in its radiant beauty.” -Google Books
A Camera, Two Kids and a Camel
“…Griffiths' photographs almost have no need for text, they're so compelling. Thankfully, she does provide a warm, loving glance into the life she lived… with pride of place belonging to her children as her almost constant travel companions. It's a mark of the quality of her writing and gorgeous photography that the reader is left craving even more details, more stories, more photographs.” -Publisher’s Weekly
Stunning Photographs
Shot by National Geographic's renowned photographers and filled with inspiring quotes, Stunning Photographs showcases extraordinary moments of wit, discovery, harmony, intimacy, energy, and joy. Definitive, striking, and unstaged, these images will captivate anyone who delights in the vibrant colors, textures, and sensations of everyday life.
Life in Color
"The world is a wonder of color. Remarkable images by National Geographic photographers entice us to take notice in a whole new way." -House Beautiful
Life in Color is arranged by color in a rainbow of beauty. Each chapter begins with a short, inspiring essay that explores the qualities, meaning, and symbolism of each color, and gives the reader an entirely new perspective on our world.
Last Stand
America’s virgin lands are often scattered in small, sometimes barely known pockets across the continent. Unique in publishing history, Griffiths created hand-colored images to accompany Kingsolver’s elegant examination of virgin habitats in the United States. These are the remnants that remind us of what wildness once meant – and what will be lost if it disappears. The resulting book and traveling exhibit raised significant funding for grassroots conservation efforts.
Available Light
Precocious, but shunned as a child by my overwhelmed mother, I became ferociously independent. At age 25, I was plucked from obscurity and given a dream job as one of the first woman photographers at National Geographic.
In time, it became clear that my gender, which so frustrated me as a child, was my super-power. I had access to stories rarely told because, in a male dominated industry, I got to be with the girls. This book is about the necessity and the thrill of defying categories.