Robert Glenn Ketchum

Robert Glenn Ketchum (b. 1947) is one of the best known landscape and nature photographers working today. His work is distinguished by an extraordinary combination of beauty, technical skills and a strong environmental advocacy message.

Photography Career

Ketchum began his study in photography at UCLA under the direction of Edmund Testke and Robert Heinecken. After he graduated he began a life-long friendship with Eliot Porter, who helped form his ideas about photography and about how photography can be used to help change the world. In his 30-year career, Ketchum has become world renowned as the quintessential photographer-environmentalist. In its centennial edition, "Audubon" magazine included Ketchum in their list of 100 champions "who shaped the environmental movement in the 20th century." He was also listed by "American Photo" magazine as one of the 100 most important people in photography. He was also named the 2001 Outstanding Photographer of the Year by the [http://www.naapa.org North American Nature Photography Association] and Outstanding Person of the Year 2000 by "Photo Media" magazine.

He has had over 400 one-man and group shows, and his photographs are in major museum collections throughout the world.

Awards

Josephine and Frank Duveneck Humanitarian Award

Robert O. Easton Award for Environmental Stewardship

Books

*"American Photographers and The National Parks", 1981
*"The Hudson River and The Highlands"’, 1981
*"The Legacy of Wildness: The Photographs of Robert Glenn Ketchum", 1993
*"Northwest Passage"’, 1996
*"Overlooked in America: The Success and Failure of Federal Land Management", 1991
*"Regarding the Land: Robert Glen Ketchum and the Legacy of Eliot Porter", 2006
*"Rivers of Life: Southwest Alaska, the Last Great Salmon Fishery"’, 2001
*"Tatshenshini River Wild", 1993
*"Threads of Light: Embroideries from Suzhou and the Photography of Robert Glenn Ketchum", 1999
*"The Tongass: Alaska’s Vanishing Rain Forest", 1994
*"Wind River Wilderness", 2006
*"Wood-Tikchick: Alaska’s Largest State Park", 2005

External Links

[http://www.robertglennketchum.com/ Official Web Site]

[http://www.popphoto.com/photographynewswire/4667/a-conversation-with-robert-glenn-ketchum.html A Conversation with Robert Glenn Ketchum]

[http://members.aol.com/kevinoneil/rgk.html The Photographs of Robert Glenn Ketchum: The Legacy of Wildness]