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Water Usage in 2010 Calendar - Photographer Credits & Biographies |
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Robert Clark
Robert Clark is a freelance photographer based in New York City who works with the world’s leading magazines and major publishing houses, as well as on cutting-edge advertising campaigns. Clark’s images have won international awards, graced the covers of books and magazines, including more than a dozen covers of National Geographic. Known for his innovation, Clark shot a book, Image America, developed into a gallery exhibit in New York City and the first ever published cell-phone photography book. Clark witnessed the attack on the World Trade Center from his Brooklyn rooftop. His four-picture series, published in magazines worldwide, won the World Press Award for spot news. Clark photo essay ‘Was Darwin Wrong?’ received a National Magazine Award for Best Photo essay.
robertclark.com |
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Hans Strand
After a nine-year career in mechanical engineering, Hans Strand made a dramatic change to devote his life to landscape photography, his long-held hobby and great passion. It is a change he has never regretted. Over the years, Strand has photographed everything from the vast expanses of the Arctic, to steaming rainforests and dry deserts. His work has been displayed in numerous exhibitions and published in many international photography magazines. His awards include Hasselblad Master Award in 2008. He has published three books with landscape photographs.
hansstrand.com |
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Ami Vitale
Ami Vitale, best known for her cultural documentation, was named Magazine Photographer of the Year by the National Press Photographers Association and International Photos of the Year. Photo District News named her one of the top ‘30 Under 30’. The South Asian Journalists Association presented her with the Daniel Pearl Award for outstanding print reporting. Her awards also include the first-ever Inge Morath grant, the Canon female photojournalist award for her work in Kashmir, and the Alexia Foundation for World Peace. Vitale’s photographs have been published in a range of international magazines and exhibitions. Currently Vitale is a photographer with National Geographic.
amivitale.com |
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Patrick Ward
Patrick came into reportage photography inthe golden age of 1960s. The British Sundaynewspapers were just starting their colourmagazines and editors sent a new generationof young photographers worldwide in searchof picture stories. By his mid-twenties, he wastravelling across Latin America and Mexicofor the Sunday Times Magazine, definitelyrunning before he could walk, but stillmanaging to return with 10- and 12-pagepicture essays. Since then he has workedwith a wide range of magazines, books andjournals. He has also shot six books. Fourdecades after his first assignment, he is stillenjoying photography enormously, andgetting that adrenaline rush when he managesto be in the right place at the right moment!
patrickwardphoto.com
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Gerd Ludwig
Gerd Ludwig’s naturalistic images of contemporary life are layered, complex and intellectual. Widely published, he has also contributed regularly to National Geographic since the early 1990s. Gerd’s humanistic focus on the socioeconomic changes after the dissolution of the Soviet Bloc resulted in his book, Broken Empire: After the Fall of the USSR, published by National Geographic (2001); his ongoing coverage of Russia has ensured he is one of the foremost colour photographers documenting the region. Working primarily for National Geographic, Gerd shoots advertising campaigns and gives workshops internationally. He is a Canon Explorer of Light, a veteran of the renowned A Day in the Life book series and has won numerous awards including the Lucie Award for International Photographer of the Year.
gerdludwig.com |
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George Steinmetz
Flying hundreds and thousands of feet above ground, strapped into motorised paraglider (little more than a parachute with a small motor), George has photographed the most remote and spectacular environments worldwide. His book, African Air, contains stunning panoramas from over 14 African countries. A regular contributor to National Geographic and GEO for over 20 years, he photographed the remotest areas of Arabia’s Empty Quarter and first contact with treedwelling people in the New Guinea jungle. His awards include two first prizes in science and technology from World Press Photo, and awards and citations from Pictures of the Year, Overseas Press Club, and the Alfred Eisenstadt Awards. His recent the US National Science Foundation grant is to to fund photographing the Antarctica Dry Valleys and volcanoes.
georgesteinmetz.com |
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Christopher Herwig
After graduating with a photography diplomain 1997, Christopher has been photographingdeveloping countries worldwide ever since.In between his earlier trips he also workedin commercial photo studios in London,Stockholm and Vancouver, learning fromother photographers and adding to hiscreative and technical toolbox. Since 2003,he has been based in Kazakhstan and Liberiaworking as a freelance photojournalist,photography instructor and for the UNpeacekeeping mission.
herwigphoto.com |
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Cameron Davidson
Aerial and portrait photographer CameronDavidson captures images from the skiesaround the globe for numerous magazinesincluding National Geographic, corporate campaigns and annual reports. An avidvolunteer, he also documents people andhumanitarian aid projects in the centralhighlands of Haiti. His work has garneredawards including a recent display at theSmithsonian National Museum of NaturalHistory. Cameron is currently completinga 20-year book project celebrating thebeauty and fragility of the Chesapeake BayWatershed. Select images from this projectwere the focus of a recent issue of theWashington Post Magazine.
www.camerondavidson.com |
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Nick Brandt
As part of his ongoing photographic projectto memorialise the vanishing natural grandeurof East Africa, Nick Brandt has publishedthe first two books of a trilogy: On This Earth(2005), and A Shadow Falls (2009). He has hadmultiple solo shows of his work across Europeand North America – in New York, Berlin,London, Los Angeles, Munich, Brussels, Paris, Santa Fe, San Francisco and Sydney.
nickbrandt.com |
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Matt Shelley
Born in Northern England in 1976, Matt’sinterest in photography started at an early agewhen his parents first bought him a plasticKodak camera for his ninth birthday. Afterstudying photography and graphic design,Matt pursued a career in the latter. Hisphotography combines his love of travel withthe experimental, and his passion for makingthe mundane beautiful and the everyday seemnew is undiminished.
mattshelley.co.uk |
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Ko Kyaw Tha
Ko Kyaw Tha, a 30-year-old photographer from Burma has won six prizes this year, to add to his total of over 40 in international contests. Three of his recent photos have proceeded to the final stages in the digitalphoto.com and pcphotomag.com contests and he is waiting to hear. He also won the Grand Prize in The Asia without Borders Photography Competition 2008.
winnhichin@fastmail.fm |
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