Thomas D. Mangelsen’s book “The Natural World” has been named the Benjamin Franklin Award winner for the best coffee table book. The book chronicles ten ecosystems that provide refuge for life in all its diversity. To learn more about the award, visit the website.
A photographic exhibition of work from the Spring Photography at the Summit week are now on display in the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole as the workshop went green in a big way.
Partnering with the International League of Conservation Photographers – a group of some 60 of the world’s leading photographers specializing in nature, wildlife and conservation issues – participants in the workshop joined with some 11 ILCP photographers to produce a RAVE (Rapid Assessment Visual Expedition) in an area south of Jackson in the Wyoming Upper Green River Valley. This is an area in which existing oil and gas drilling could be expanded significantly to the detriment of wildlife.
For three days of the Summit, workshop participants joined ILCP members in documenting both the beauty and uniqueness of the area and the impact initial drilling has had in one of Wyoming’s most beautiful valleys. An opening of the exhibition of 40 pictures was hosted at the museum by Earthjustice, a national organization bringing leading attorneys to the issues involved in impacting some of America’s most unique and beautiful places. Earthjustice president Trip Van Noppen joined The Wilderness Society’s Peter Aengst, museum president Jim McNutt, Summit organizer Rich Clarkson and the ILCP founder and executive director, Cristina Mittermeier in speaking at the opening.
Eight workshop participants joined in the RAVE while others proceeded on projects of their own choosing during the workshop, which operated side-by-side with the RAVE project. And to insure all participants in both projects were well supported, Nikon brought additional D3 digital cameras and long lenses for photographers to use during the week.
A sampling of the work can be viewed online in the Rocky Mountain News and Denver Post online features:
If there was any doubt about the excellence of the National Geographic magazine, the National Magazine Awards ended that. Presented to National Geographic editor Chris Johns in a Thursday night( April 1) banquet in New York were the top prize for photography, for writing, for photojournalism — and overall excellence. It was the second year in a row that the Geographic was named America’s top magazine and the first time one magazine won as many awards.
Adventure Photography Workshop faculty member Corey Rich’s spectacular pictures from an eight-day 77 mile first ever free-climbing expedition through the Grand Canyon along the Colorado River appear in the May issue of Men’s Journal. And Corey was featured on the contributors page at the front of the magazine.
The May-June issue of American Photo is full of Summit faculty members — and students — as editor-in-chief David Schonauer features travel photographs. Selecting “10 Places You Must Photograph” was Frans Lanting (whose portfolio of the Galapagos Islands is included) and Corey Rich who picked the high Sierra, close to his home base of South Lake Tahoe, CA. The Master Class features the work and techniques of Jim Richardson as he shoots the Celtic rim. Tom Mangelsen shows Grand Teton National Park. But it was for student-from -last year’s -Adventure Workshop Gregg Bleakney, to provide the epic story — and pictures of his Alaska-to-Chile bicycle trip.Schonauer joins the faculty for the spring Summit Workshop along with Mangelsen and Lanting, while Rich presides over the Adventure Workshop in the fall and Richardson appears on the fall Summit.
Reuters and MediaStorm collaborated to create Bearing Witness: Five Years of the Iraq War to coincide with the war’s 5th anniversary. The site features profiles of three Reuter’s journalists who have more than 23 years combined experience reporting and photographing in Iraq. Reuters video, photography, infographics and journalists are showcased in this five chapter interactive application created from more than 20 hours of video footage and images selected from 3,600 of the best of Reuters photographs — some published for the first time. Brian Storm, founder of MediaStorm, will be on the spring Conservation Summit faculty, to discuss the creation of online rich media projects.
Longtime workshop faculty and friend Bobby Model continues his long-term recovery from traumatic injury suffered on assignment in South Africa in June of last year. The Associated Press has featured Model in article about his early upbringing in Cody, WY, his rise to the top of photojournalism’s ranks, his recent work for National Geographic and his long term recovery now continuing at Denver area Craig Hospital. The workshop faculty and friends’ hopes and thoughts remain with him at all times.
Damian Strohmeyer’s Sports Illustrated cover of David Tyree’s amazing catch in the Super Bowl drew more raves in the letters to the editor column of the magazine, where one reader called it ”journalistic perfection.” He went on to say “the photo not only captured the greatness of the game but also one of the most memorable moments in sports history.” Strohmeyer plans to join the Sports Photography Workshop faculty again in June.
Nikon announced their new D60 digital SLR camera at PMA. The consumer-oriented camera features 10.2 MP DX format sensor, along with a three frames a second shooting mode, placing it’s feature set, not surprisingly, between their current D40x and D80 models.
Frans Lanting received the photographer of the year award at the big PMA Exhibition in Las Vegas this week. He had just been awarded, by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, the Royal Order of the Golden Art, that country’s highest conservation honor. Frans will be one of the faculty members at the May Conservation Photography at the Summit Workshop. The PMA show is the largest photo equipment and professional marketing exhibition in the world.