Ami Vitale: The Story Within the Story
Source: http://www.annenbergspaceforphotography.org/events/iris-nights/poy-2010/50 Ami Vitale The Story Within the Story Thursday, July 29th, 2010 6:30-8:00pm Ami Vitale‘s work as a photojournalist has taken her to more than 75 countries, where she witnessed civil unrest, poverty and unspeakable violence. In the midst of this despair, she captured surreal beauty and the enduring power of the human spirit. The four years Vitale spent …
Steve Fine
Source: http://www.annenbergspaceforphotography.org/events/iris-nights/sport/35 Steve Fine has been Director of Photography at Sports Illustrated since 1996. Fine started working at SI in 1979 as an Assistant Photo Editor. In 1983, he was at the New York Times for 6 years as Sports Picture Editor at the Sunday magazine. He returned to Sports Illustrated in 1992. Steve Fine will discuss Olympic coverage by Sports Illustrated . No one …
Clyde Butcher The Everglades in Black and White
Source: http://www.annenbergspaceforphotography.org/events/iris-nights/extreme-exposure/67 Clyde Butcher has spent the last 25 years of his photographic career capturing the unique, primeval environment of the Everglades on large format film. He will share the journey that brought his life from a career in architecture to that of landscape photographer. Butcher’s photographs explore his personal relationship with the environment. For more than 40 years, he …
Donna O’Meara: Blown Away
Source: http://www.annenbergspaceforphotography.org/events/iris-nights/extreme-exposure/74 Donna O’Meara is recognized worldwide as an award-winning photographer, author and expert on volcanoes. Her talk will describe her start shooting active volcanoes, and some of the fun, scary and strange adventures of her work. In 1994, Donna and husband Stephen O’Meara founded Volcano Watch International (VWI), a research organization dedicated to better understanding Earth’s active volcanoes. …
Erika Larsen: The Sami Reindeer Herders
“Erika Larsen has worked as a magazine photographer since 2000, specializing in human interest stories, sensitive cultural issues and the connection between people and the natural world. For the past three years, Larsen has been living with families in Norway and Sweden. She regularly photographs the daily lives of Sami reindeer herders living in the Scandinavian Arctic. Her lecture will …
Ian Shive: Water & Sky
Ian Shive is the recent recipient of the Gold Medal, 2010 Nautilus Book Award, in the Great Peacekeepers category in recognition of his top-selling book The National Parks: Our American Landscape, released in August 2009 on Earth Aware Editions, for promoting “spiritual growth, conscious living and positive social change…and offering the reader ‘new possibilities’ for a better life and world,” …
Gil Garcetti: Women, Water, And Wells
Source: http://www.annenbergspaceforphotography.org/events/iris-nights/water/45 Through compelling black and white images of community life in West Africa, Gil Garcetti shows the critical needs of millions of people who live without safe water, together with the uplifting pictorial accounts of success and hope that come with providing clean water. The photographs relate a powerful story in scenes of landscape and environment; of community life …
Mike Theiss – Mother Nature at Her Worst
From: http://www.annenbergspaceforphotography.org/events/iris-nights/extreme-exposure/78 Mike Theiss lives with this motto: “I never wish for a weather disaster to happen, but if it happens, I want to be there to document it and share it with the world to send a message of awareness and respect for nature.” Theiss’ earliest encounter with nature was at the age of eight when, defying his teacher, …
Paul Nicklen
“Photographer Paul Nicklen uses his camera to reveal the nature of a world melting away under human-induced global warming. “I call myself an interpreter and a translator,” says Nicklen. “I translate what the scientists are telling me. If we lose ice, we stand to lose an entire ecosystem, [and] I hope we can realize through my photography how interconnected these …
Camille Seaman – Connection & Purpose
Photographer, Camille Seaman, has traveled between both the North and South Polar Regions for the last ten years documenting the fragile environment and its otherworldly beauty. Her work captures the essence of awe and beauty of indigenous cultures and environments in a sophisticated documentary/fine art tradition. People often wonder what one person can do to help save this planet we …