Below is a list of
the faculty confirmed for Spring Photography at the Summit
2008.
We continue to add faculty for the event and will be posting
their information here so, so please check back often. Be
aware, however, that even when posted, most of our faculty
are working professionals and last minute cancellations/substitutions
may occur. |
Bill
Allen |
Bill Allen spent his entire professional
career at one place -- from an intern to illustrations editor
to become editor-in-chief of the National Geographic magazine.
Before his retirement three years ago, he began the redirection
of the magazine from one that often quaintly looked into
countries and people and geopolitics to a magazine addressing
the important issues of our time. His hand-picked successor,
Chris Johns, continues the new direction that Bill set into
action during his ten years as editor. Today, the renewed
magazine that Bill crafted takes directions, backed and dictated
by scientists and research, that addresses the pressing problems
of global warming, conservation, population explosion and
geopolitics. Serving on boards that range from conservation
issues to space exploration, Bill's influence at the National
Geographic magazine continues along with his many other efforts.
Popular and approachable at the Summit Workshops, Bill is
a unique resource for those seeking to further meaningful
photography from the Geographic itself to many other venues
in these changing times. |
Gary Braasch |
Gary Braasch has been a professional photographer
and writer specializing in environmental issues since 1985.
Winner of the prestigeous Ansel Adams Award for Conservation
Photography and NANPA's Oustanding Nature Photographer of
the Year, he holds a masters degree in journalism from Northwestern
University and has been widely published in many magazines
including Smithsonian, LIFE, Audubon, Discover and Time.
Recent assignments have taken him from Antarctica to the
Peruvian jungles. Last year, he published his master work
on climate change, "Earth
Under Fire: How Global Warming is Changing the World." |
James Balog |
James Balog's work is sometimes journalistic,
sometimes documentary, often original and highly creative
and regularly displayed and respected in the museums and
galleries of the art world. His most recent of four books
is an amazing retrospective, "Anima," which elegantly
shows his career progression . Best known for his very stylized
and unique portraits of the world's endangered species of
animals, he is now working on a similar but very different
project -- portraits of the nation's greatest trees. In addition
to books and galleries, his work has been seen overseas and
in the country in such publications as the National Geographic
and Vanity Fair. |
David
Doubilet |
David Doubilet is considered by many to be
the premier underwater photographer of our time and with
books, exhibitions and many magazine stories to his credit,
his principal place of publication has been in the pages
of the National Geographic magazine. Born in 1946 in New
York City, he was snorkeling at age eight and taking black
and white underwater photographs at age 13. Majoring in film
and journalism at Boston University, he was first published
in the National Geographic in 1972. His warm water work has
taken him to the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean and the South
Pacific where he once took a sidetrip from the life of the
ocean floor to photograph death -- in the form of the World
War II Japanese fleet resting at the bottom of the oceans
off New Guinea. His cold water photographs have taken him
to the North Pacific, Japan, the Galapagos and Scotland's
Loch Ness. And while his work includes many fine photographs
above the water line, his work is primarily the spectacular
beauties of life in many forms at the bottom of the worlds'
oceans. |
Jack Dykinga |
Jack Dykinga went from a street newspaper
photographer in Chicago (where he won a Pulitzer Prize) to
the canyons and deserts of the southwest where is second
career shows the beauty of the world. This spring marks the
introduction of his newest book highlighting all the vistas
around and across the Grand Canyon of his now-native Arizona.
He is motivated by environmental and conservation issues
as well as his love for photography where much of his work
has been done in large format. He presently has two major
stories for the National Geographic magazine underway. A
founding member of the International League of Conservation
Photographers, he will be showing work from this new book
at the workshop. |
Tom
Mangelsen |
Recently named as one of the 100 most important
people in photography by American Photo, Tom Mangelsen is
known for his stunning wildlife photography. He is the founder
of a worldwide group of galleries as well as author of several
books, all featuring his stunning wildlife photographs. A
leading voice for animal rights, he co-founded the Cougar
Fund dedicated to saving the wild cats. In recent years he
received the gold medal of the Royal Photographic Society,
its highest award. |
Kathy
Moran |
Illustrations editor for National Geographic
magazine, Moran specializes in articles on wildlife and underwater
ecosystems, coordinating photographers in the field and editing
their work as it arrives at the magazine. Recent highlights
include a special edition of National Geographic's "100
Best Wildlife Photographs" and
the Africa "Megatransect" project. She has edited
books for the Society, including "Women Photographers
at the National Geographic," "The Africa Diaries--An
Illustrated Memoir of Life in the Bush," and "Cat
Shots." |
| David Schonauer |
As editor in chief of American Photo magazine,
he presides over the nation's principal magazine voice for
contemporary photography. Originating a series of special
topical issues each year, he has kept the magazine viable
and growing in influence while retaining perspective of great
photographs and photographers of today and the recent past.
In September of this year, he devoted an entire issue to
photography as a catalyst for conservation awareness. |
| Bob
Smith |
After more than 20 years building
his own Colorado-based nature photography business Elk Meadow
Images, Smith relocated to Jackson in 2006 to manage Tom
Mangelsen's Images of Nature archive and continue his own
photography. Smith is a gifted educator, drawing on his fifteen
years of experience in his previous career as an education
account executive and digital consultant with Apple computer.
He is a frequent staff member of the Summit Series of Workshops. |
| Brian
Storm |
Brian Storm was a pioneer in new delivery
methods of photographs when a master's degree candidate at
the University of Missouri where on the way to that degree,
he ran the School of Journalism's New Media Lab, taught electronic
journaslism and produced early day CD-ROMs for the Pictures
of the Year competition. From 1995 until 2002, he was director
of multimedia at MSNBC, a joint venture of Microsoft and
NBC News where he was responsible for the audio, photography
and video elements of the site. He served two years as vice-president
of news, multimedia and assignment services for Corbis where
he developed a strategy for production, packaging and distribution
of in-depth media reporting. He left to form his own company,
MediaStorm,
who today is the acknowledged leader in the new form of multimedia
storytelling on the internet and multiple media incorporating
photojournalism and audio reporting. He is considered the
leader in this new field. |
Rich Clarkson |
The organizer of Photography at the Summit.
His Denver-based company packages books, uses new technology
to manage photographic and publishing ventures for such diverse
groups as the Denver Broncos football team and Colorado Rockies
baseball team, and serves as consultant to a variety of companies,
publishers and foundations. The former director of photography
and senior assistant editor of the National Geographic magazine,
he photographed for many years for Sports Illustrated ,Time
and LIFE magazines. Working earlier for newspapers in Topeka,
Ks. and Denver, he was named as one of the 100 most influential
persons in photography by American Photo magazine. |
Robert
Glenn Ketchum - Leading ILCP RAVE in coordination with
workshop. |
Excellence in Professional Achievement; the
Ansel Adams Award for Conservation Photography; and Outstanding
Photographer of the Year (2001) from the North American Nature
Photography Association.
He is perhaps most recognized for his work in the Tongass,
which is credited with helping to pass the Tongass Timber
Reform Bill of 1990. This significant legislation established
five major wilderness areas and simultaneously protected
more than one million acres of old-growth trees in the largest
temperate rainforest in the world.
Currently, his traveling exhibition "Southwest Alaska:
A World of Parks and Wildlife Refuges At the Crossroads" acquaints
many for the time with the struggle to protect the greatest
commercial salmon fishery in history from off-shore gas and
oil exploration and the development of the world’s
largest gold mine in the midst of valuable spawning habitat.
The regional area is a world of national parks, wildlife
refuges and significant state parks, all of which will be
transformed by the development of the scale being proposed.
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Michael
Totten - guest lecturing Monday evening. |
Chief advisor on climate, water
and biodiversity at Conservation International. He has been
promoting a portfolio strategy for simultaneously addressing
climate stabliization, biodiversity protection and human
well-being since 1989, when he drafted the 250-page Global
Warming Prevention Act (HR1078), sponsored by one-third of
the House of Representatives. Totten was recipient
of the Lewis Mumford Award for the Environment in 1999 for
pioneering Internet applications promoting ecologically sustainable
practices, and green design tools, technologies and policies. |
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