# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/herbert-ponting
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:36:27.978Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/herbert-ponting"
name: "Herbert Ponting"
slug: "herbert-ponting"
description: "Herbert George Ponting, FRGS was an English professional photographer. He is best known as the expedition photographer and cinematographer for Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition to the Ross Sea and South Pole (1910–1913). In this role, he captured some of the most enduring images of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration."
tagline: "English photographer and explorer (1870–1935)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Herbert_G._Ponting_and_his_camera_-_H.G.P._LCCN2009633374.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1870-03-21"
deathDate: "1935-02-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump