ILCP Fellow Steve Winter won this year's BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year award for his Snowstorm Leopard image, which also took the first prize for the Gerald Durrell Award for Endangered Wildlife category.  ILCP Associate Stefano Unterthiner has won first prize as BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2008 in the Animal Portraits category.  He also won second prize in the Gerald Durrell Award for Endangered Wildlife category.  The winning image of the macaca made the cover of the October issue and also graces the cover of the book, which contains all the winning photographs of this years edition of the awards.  Other ILCP members whose work was recognized:  ILCP Fellows Piotr Nasckrecki, Florian Schulz, Brian Skerry, Christian Ziegler, and ILCP Associate Tom Peschak.  Members of the judging panel were ILCP Executive Director Cristina Mittermeier, ILCP Affiliates Roz Kidman Cox and Sophie Stafford, and ILCP Fellows Norbert Rosing and Flip Nicklin. To view the images and all awards click here.  Congratulations to all!!!

A Climate for Life: Meeting the Global Challenge examines the impact of climate change on biodiversity and focuses on the most important challenges currently facing life on our planet.  Powerfully combining both images and offerings, A Climate for Life is the result of leading scientists and veteran photographers contributing their talents to showcase the topics, issues, and challenges that society must urgently face, and the book's lasting impression is that ultimately the responsibility is literally and figuratively in our hands.
When the site is up and ready, we'll contact you with how to go about buying your copy!

The Center for Fine Art Photography is hosting an exhibition of an exclusive collection of images by members of the ILCP.  Following a well received showing at The Collective Art Gallery in Ft. Collins, CO, the gallery wrapped canvas giclées are now on display at The Center in conjunction with an international juried exhibit entitled "Our Environment - the Good, Bad and the Ugly".

ILCP Fellow Robert Glenn Ketchum juried the environmental photography exhibit which runs from November 7th -26th.  Robert conducted a workshop on "Making a Social Impact with Your Photography" for attendees from November 7 - 10.

On Monday, November 10th, Robert spoke and showed some of his work at two venues: The Center for Fine Art Photography and in Colorado State University's Visual Arts building.  Robert's presentation, "Photography as an Advocate for Environmental Change", is sponsored by CSU, Fine Print Imaging and The Center for Fine Art Photography.

Fine Print Imaging and Art for Conservation sponsored a $500 cash award for the juried Environment exhibit at The Center for Fine Art Photography. ILCP Associate Garth Lenz was selected as the winner of the award for his compelling photograph of the Alberta Tar Sands.

Fine Print president and ILCP Executive Committee member Mark Lukes made a special presentation about the mission and activities of ILCP and Art for Conservation on November 18th at the Center for Fine Art Photography. The presentation featured images and videos of ILCP members, the Bioko Rave video and a dialogue with the audience about conservation photography.

The ILCP show features works by Annie Griffiths Belt, Frans Lanting, Cristina Mittermeier, Peter Oxford, Boyd Norton, Norbert Rosing, Bob Rozinski, Joel Sartore, Wendy Shattil, Igor Shpilenok, Roy Toft, Michele Westmorland, Art Wolfe, Florian Schulz, Jenny Ross, Alison Jones, Gary Braasch, Connie Bransilver, Garth Lenz, Chris Linder, Balan Madhavan, Kevin Schafer and Staffan Widstrand.  All images in the exhibit are also featured in the Art for Conservation Gallery with proceeds going to ILCP.

VIEW THE ENTIRE EXHIBIT ONLINE HERE
SEE AND PURCHASE ILCP PHOTOGRAPHY HERE
VISIT THE CENTER FOR FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY WEBSITE HERE

During the week long celebration of photography, the first annual FotoWeek DC was launched November 15-22.  ILCP Fellows David Doubilet and Joel Sartore met with the public at the Smith Farm Center gallery to celebrate and sign the Visions of Paradise book published by the National Geographic Society.  Also, At Close Range, a film featuring Joel as he reveals the danger and hardship experienced in the field, was shown on November 18 at the Grosvenor Auditorium of National Geographic as part of its Live! series.

The nomination period for the 2008 Rowell Award for the Art of Adventure is now open and runs through December 31, 2008.  The Rowell Award celebrates the accomplishments of famed adventurers and photographers Galen and Barbara Rowell, who died in a plane crash in 2002. The Rowell Award honors that adventurer whose artistic passion illuminates the wild places of the world, and whose accomplishments significantly benefit both the environment and the people who inhabit these lands and regions.  Past Award recipients have been photographers Jimmy Chin (2005), Beth Wald (2006) and ILCP Fellow James Balog (2007).  The $15,000 annual cash award will be presented to an individual selected by a panel of active and influential members of the outdoor adventure world at the annual Rowell Lecture Series in spring 2009 at an event in San Francisco.  Individuals who may be interested in nominating someone or having someone nominate them, please visit the website here. 

Adventure photographer Chris Noble and writer/activist Bill McKibben's 350.org invite photographers across the globe to band together and apply their talents to help fight global warming. "350" is the amount, measured in parts per million which scientists agree is the maximum level of carbon dioxide the earth's atmosphere can sustain without catastrophic results. 350.org was created with the express purpose of educating the world's citizens about the mounting dangers of climate change. As part of that outreach, the organization is asking for a submission of one photograph from 350 photographers that best illustrate this complex issue.  The photographs will be posted on the 350.org website in a special gallery including a short caption by the photographer explaining the image and its connection to climate change, accompanied by the photographer's name and contact information.  By participating, photographers will not only be helping address what is arguably the most pressing issue of our age, they will be helping promote their own work.  If the project is successful there is the possibility of creating a print exhibit based on the collection which can be presented on Capitol Hill, at the U.N. and other major venues to help raise public and political awareness. The ILCP will be participating and contributing with 350.org on this project.  For more information please contact Chris Noble: chris@noblefoto.com / Phone: 801.582.2623 or the ILCP.

The ILCP will be making an evening presentation at the next Palm Springs Photo Festival, which will take place March 29 - April 3, 2009.  Advanced registration is now open!  CONNECT 09 offers the opportunity to meet top photographers, curators, art directors, educators and industry leaders in the spectacular desert environment of Palm Springs, California for this year's Palm Springs Photo Festival.
 
Show your portfolios, study with legendary photographers, attend cutting-edge seminars / symposiums and enjoy evening projections by world famous image makers. Network with the master photographers, industry insiders and your contemporaries at several great evening parties and enjoy the warm Palm Springs weather.
 
For all the information on the festival and registration, call 1-800-928-8314 or visit the website here.

The ILCP is Going to WILD9 - Save the Date!

WILD 9 - Feel, Think, Act - is underway! For the first time in its more than 30 years of work around the world, the World Wilderness Congress (WWC) will convene in Latin America, in the welcoming "White City" of Merida in Mexico's Yucatan -the land of the Maya.

The ILCP will celebrate it's 4th anniversary at WILD9 with a three day symposium that will explore the latest and most innovative conservation communication initiatives.  We are also planning a Yucatan RAVE to highlight the development challenges faced by this region.

From November 6 - 13, 2009, the WWC - the world's longest-running public international forum for the environment - will again convene a large and diverse gathering of senior and respected experts and representatives from governments, NGOs, indigenous peoples, communities, corporations, religion, the arts and other sectors to act on WILD9's vision statement: wilderness is the strategic element in our response to global environmental change. Many people and groups are already collaborating on the practical objectives of WILD 9.

To learn more and to register to attend, click here.

 

The Blending Cellar,based in Boulder, Colorado is producing 2 new wines.  WILD and RAVE. This endeavor is in collaboration with The WILD Foundation!
More information to come.