Ning Ma, born in Qingdao, China, raised in Vancouver, BC, now a Bay Area resident, is an internationally awarded landscape photographer and mountaineer with footsteps across 30+ countries, across 5 continents.

Ma began her journey exploring the world when she was 17, when she went to volunteer to help build a school in rural Masai Mara, Kenya. Since then, she has gone on to study Arabic in Morocco and Egypt, trek through the jungles of the Amazon rain forests, backpack across the bustling streets of South East Asia, sail down the coast of Patagonia, hot balloon across the red sand dunes of Namibia, cage-dive next to the Great Whites of South Africa, dance under the brilliant Northern Lights in Iceland, and chase-storms in USA's Tornado Alley. Somewhere along the way, she discovered her love for landscape photography.

Ma is currently on a decade-long endeavor to create the first fine-art photography series of documenting the Explorers’ Grand Slam: the summit of the tallest mountain of every continent (Everest, Aconcagua, Denali, Kilimanjaro, Elbrus, Vinson, and Puncak Jaya), and the North and South Pole. Ma has previously exhibited at the Louvre Museum in Paris, the Museum of Flight in Seattle, and the Atlanta International Airport. In between her travels, Ma has been calling the Bay Area home since 2019.

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