National Geographic Explorer | Storytelling & Field Cinematography Strategist
Sophie Dia Pegrum is a National Geographic Explorer and interdisciplinary storyteller whose work combines documentary field cinematography, ethical narrative practice, and long-term collaboration at the intersection of science, culture, and place.
Her projects - spanning Central Asia, Mongolia, and the American West - use the camera as a tool for observation, relationship-building, and translation. She works with institutions and communities to design storytelling frameworks that honor lived experience while making complex ideas, such as deep time, dark skies, and interspecies relationships legible to public audiences.
Film Still from “Envoy” - at Son Kol Lake, Kyrgyzstan
Field & Exploration
National Geographic Field Notes
Reflections from the field on storytelling, science, and place.
Storywork52
Reflections on ethical storytelling, field practice, memory, and narrative responsibility.
Documentary & Film
Rare Equine Trust
Award-winning documentaries and long-term projects exploring horse cultures, land, and human–animal relationships.
Shakti Pictures
Social-justice-driven documentary work rooted in collaboration and cultural accountability.
Cosmos & Imagination
@sdp.cosmosdreams
Ongoing visual and narrative work exploring space, imagination, and the “dream gap,” expanded through youth-centered science storytelling initiatives including Cosmos Photo Camp and Deep Time—a National Geographic–supported project connecting young people in Central Asia and Mongolia with deep time, fossils, dark skies, and scientific ways of knowing.
Professional Practice
LinkedIn
Institutional collaborations, speaking, teaching, and consulting in ethical storytelling and science communication.
Cinematography Reel