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The festival is proud to bring you some of the top names in the outdoor photography field. Below is a little biographical information about each.
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Ace Kvale - Ace Kvale's photography is a celebration of the human element—a study of rich cultures and extreme climates, a record of first ascents and descents. His images are powerful yet humble, and his passion for storytelling has translated into a remarkable talent for weaving a complete narrative through pictures.
Ace began his relationship with photography working in front of the lens as a ski model in the early eighties. This relationship shifted when he hitchhiked through Africa for five months, carrying a small manual Rollei camera. When he returned and showed his images to the professional photographers he knew, they urged him to make it a career. Ace had witnessed the world in a different way—through a viewfinder—and he's never looked back since.
Thirty years later, now one of the world's top adventure photographers, Ace has traveled to more than sixty countries. He's participated in twenty-five expeditions to Asia and the Himalaya, and he's worked with many of the world's best athletes. He's hung from helicopters in the Alps and skied first descents in Alaska. His images have appeared in dozens of magazines, from National Geographic to The National Enquirer. He's contributed imagery to dozens of books and movies, and shot portraits of celebrities from Jerry Garcia to Tiger Woods. Website www.acekvale.com |
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Bill Ellzey - In 1965, at age 20, Bill Ellzey picked up a camera little knowing that photography would become his profession. Since then camera work has taken him around the world completing assignments and teaching photographers, professional and amateur, the art and techniques of the medium.
He was director of Western Photo Workshops in Telluride, Colorado for eleven years and continues to teach privately and for organizations in the U.S. and abroad.
His work from India, China, Australia, Japan, Mexico, Alaska, Egypt, Ireland, Chilean Patagonia and the American West has been published here and abroad. Bill's images are in magazines, books, calendars, newspapers, catalogs, annual reports, galleries and private collections.
His stock photography is represented by National Geographic Image Collection.
Bill lives and works in his self-built, strawbale home in Crestone, Colorado. Website www.billellzey.com |
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Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier - Cristina is a Mexican-born photojournalist and marine biologist who combines her understanding of the scientific underpinnings of conservation to a boundless passion for photography and communication. She is the President and a Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers, a prestigious non-for-profit initiative she created in 2005 to recognize photographers working in conservation.
Her own photography been published and exhibited in some of the world’s most influential publications. Cristina serves on the board of the WILD Foundation and on the Chairman’s Council of Conservation International. Her interests range from marine issues and loss of biodiversity to indigenous knowledge, but her life’s passion is photojournalism and the documentation of the intersection between nature and human societies. Website www.ilcp.com |
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Bob Rozinski - Bob has spent more than 30 eventful years as a multifaceted photographer, naturalist and educator, with images in twelve books and hundreds of other publications worldwide. He is former stringer for Associated Press, shifting from photojournalism to nature subjects out of a deep love of the outdoors. Bob’s creative images have earned Bob First Place in the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, Grand Prize in the Texas Valley Land Fund contest, and First Prize in the NATURE’S BEST International photo contest.
Bob and longtime partner, Wendy Shattil, are well known for their award winning camera work and a reputation as conservation photographers. A highlight of his early career in environmental photography was documenting Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Denver, with the resulting images being highly instrumental in it’s evolution into a National Wildlife Refuge. Recognition highlights include NANPA’s Philip Hyde Grant for Environmental Photography, Outstanding Conservationist and Outstanding Business Partner of the Year from the Colorado Wildlife Federation, Environmental Stewardship Award from Denver Audubon, and induction into the NANPA Fellowship.
Bob is a Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers. He has participated in a RAVE (Rapid Assessment Visual Expedition) in the gas fields of Wyoming’s Red Desert, documenting the effects on migrating herds and other wildlife and habitat.
Photo credits include NATIONAL WILDLIFE, AUDUBON, NATURAL HISTORY, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC publications, NATURE CONSERVANCY , BBC WILDLIFE, DEFENDERS, SMITHSONIAN, TIME, NATURE’S BEST, SIERRA CLUB, WORLD WILDLIFE FUND, & AUDUBON calendars. Website www.dancingpelican.com |
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Dave FitzSimmons - Dave FitzSimmons is a free-lance photographer and writer as well as a Professor of English. Dave photographs and writes for various magazines, including Popular Photography and Shutterbug, newspapers, and online publications. He currently is at work on a handful of books. Animals of Ohio’s Ponds and Vernal Pools (Kent State University Press) will appear in 2010. Dave’s calendar credits include numerous titles by BrownTrout and Barnes & Noble.
One of six Sigma Pro photographers in North America, Dave presents seminars and workshops to a wide variety of audiences, from public school groups and college classes to nature centers and civic organizations, and his works have been exhibited at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute, the National Center for Nature Photography, and numerous galleries across the America. He will be a featured photographer the 2010 Telluride Photo Festival. Dave’s environmentally-focused, multi-media performance, “350: Images of Fragile Earth”, is traveling widely.
Dave, a former high school English teacher, has been teaching for over 15 years. He currently is an Assistant Professor of English at Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio. He holds a Ph.D. in English from Ohio State University, with a specialty in narrative theory—investigating the components of storytelling—something that influences his photography and writing.
Dave was inspired to photograph and write about nature by his parents, Mick and Judy FitzSimmons, active environmentalists and life-long teachers, and he is assisted in his natural history endeavors by his wife, Olivia, and his two daughters, Sarah and Phoebe.
To see more of Dave’s work—including his latest “Curious Critters” series—and to find out about upcoming programs and photo workshops, visit www.fitzsimmonsphotography.com.
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Doug Berry - Doug Berry, one of the best photographers in Telluride, is also going to be a guest photographer at the festival. Besides shooting some of Telluride's signature shots for the Telluride Ski Resort and other Telluride organizations. Doug Berry's photography has been published worldwide. His photographs have appeared on dozens of covers, in feature magazine articles and in newspapers such as the New York Times, Boston Herald and Washington Post. He is a member of the ASMP and Corbis and Getty Images as some of the world’s largest stock and assignment agencies to represent his photography. Website: www.dougberryimages.com |
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George Lepp - One of North America’s best-known contemporary outdoor and nature photographers and a leader in the field of digital imaging, Lepp is the author of many books and the field editor of both Digital Photo and Outdoor Photographer magazine, where his “Tech Tips” column is widely read. His work is extensively published, and his stock photography is represented by Getty Images, Corbis, and Photo Researchers. Lepp is one of the first members of Canon USA’s Explorers of Light and Printmasters programs, featuring the industry’s most influential photographers. Lepp has presented hundreds of lectures and led workshops all over the world. A founding board member of NANPA, Lepp has won many awards for his work, including the Photographic Society of America’s prestigious Progress Award. First trained in wildlife and wildlands management, Lepp later earned a BA and an honorary MSc from Brooks Institute of Photography. George lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado and can be contacted through his web site, www.GeorgeLepp.com.
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Gordon Wiltsie - Gordon Wiltsie is a photographer, writer and explorer whose
work has taken him to some of our planet’s remotest places, often on assignment
for magazines such as National Geographic, Life, Outside, Ski and numerous others. He also shoots advertising for a broad mix of companies, teaches photography seminars, guides adventure tours and is an engaging lecturer. Gordon is the author of “To the Ends of the Earth – The Adventures of an Expedition Photographer” and lives in Bozeman, Montana. Website: www.alpenimage.com |
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Jack Dykinga- Pulitzer Prize (1971 feature photography) winning photographer Jack Dykinga blends large format landscape art photography with documentary photojournalism. He is a regular contributor to Arizona Highways and National Geographic magazines. He has also focused on Texas/Mexican border highlighting the biological diversity of protected areas along the Rio Grande river corridor which appeared in the February 2007, National Geographic Magazine. He remains a National Geographic contract photographer and his next assignment will appear soon.
His nine wilderness advocacy, large format books include: Frog Mountain Blues, The Secret Forest, The Sierra Pinacate, The Sonoran Desert, Stone Canyons of the Colorado Plateau, and Desert: The Mojave and Death Valley. He authored and photographed Large Format Nature Photography, a “how to” guide to color landscape photography. Jack Dykinga's Arizona, released in 2004 from Westcliffe publishers, a compellation of Jack's best Arizona images and: Images: Jack Dykinga's Grand Canyon released by Arizona Highways, May 2008, reflect Jack's love for Arizona.
His work is driven by his passionate advocacy for preservation of the natural world. Currently, he serves on the board of the Sonoran National Park Project in an effort to create a new bi-national park on the Arizona/Sonora, Mexico border.
In April 2007, Jack and four other photographers: Thomas Mangelsen, U.S.A.; Patricio Robles Gil, Mexico; Fulvio Eccardi, Italy & Mexico; and Florien Schultz from Germany, became the first ever R.A.V.E. (rapid assessment visual expedition) for the International League of Conservation Photographers, to document the el Triunfo cloud forest in Chiapas, Mexico, drawing attention to the threatened habitat there. Website: www.dykinga.com |
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Kathleen Norris Cook - Kathleen was born in Louisiana, and after obtaining a Fine Arts degree from Mississippi College, spent thirteen years as a successful commercial artist. She began her career in New Orleans, with interim years spent in Atlanta and Dallas. Eventually, she began her career as a photographer while living in Arizona. Although she had no formal training in photography, her education and experience in the advertising field endowed her with an eye for the medium.
After months of tenaciously studying lighting and how it affects the landscape, her photograph of Toroweap Overlook above the Grand Canyon was published as a full page pictorial in the November 1978 issue of Arizona Highways Magazine. After that, several assignments followed, and Kathleen quickly became known as a legitimate landscape and commercial photographer.
Kathleen is a recipient of numerous awards. Some of her Corporate Clients include: E&J Gallo, Eastman Kodak, Hewlett Packard, and various Tourism Boards worldwide. A few of her advertising clients include: American Airlines, General Motors, and Ford. She is a major contributor to Sierra Club Publications, and the National Park Service.
Kathleen has completed four books, the most recent, a national award winning coffee table book, Spirit of the San Juans. Other publications are: Yosemite, Valley of Thunder, a large pictorial book; Exploring Mountain Highways, a book featuring her panoramic photography; and the Million Dollar Highway, a book dealing with the area along the San Juan Skyway between Durango and Ouray, Colorado. She was also a major contributor to the recently published book, Nature of America. Website: www.kathleennorriscook.com |
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Rob Haggart - Rob Haggart is founder of the popular photo industry blog APhotoEditor.com and 2009 recipient of the Griffin Museum of Photography Focus Award for Rising Star, awarded to an "emerging force the photographic community is watching with interest."
Haggart is the former director of photography for Men's Journal and Outside magazines. He has received photo editing recognition from Graphis, American Photography, Society of Publication Designers, Communication Arts, American Society of Magazine Editors, Photo District News, and was chosen as part of the creative team of the year by Ad Week. He currently freelances as a photography director and runs APhotoEditor.com, an innovative and engaging blog on photography. His most recent venture, APhotoFolio.com builds portfolio websites for photographers.
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Robert Glenn Ketchum - Robert Glenn Ketchum's formal background in photography includes study as an undergraduate at UCLA with two of the most respected non-traditional photographic image-makers on the West Coast, Edmund Teske and Robert Heinecken. Ketchum was also one of the first photography M.F.A's to graduate from California Institute of the Arts, where he later taught for several semesters.
However, it is his interests in color and the natural world enhanced by letter exchanges and visits with Eliot Porter that have defined his career. Ketchum has always felt "compelled" as an American artist to use his imagery. Exhibitions, lectures, and issue directed book publishing to address the political realities of habitat protection, natural resource management, and the preservation of wild lands, which he has done with extraordinary success.
Often supported by major foundations and individuals as diverse as actor, Robert Redford, and William E. Simon, former Secretary of the U.S. Treasury. Ketchum has used his art to effectively assist the passage of legislation and broaden public perception, while at the same time contributing a distinctive body of fine print work to contemporary color photography.
Since the early 1980's, Ketchum has also been visiting China on a yearly basis as part of the UCLA-China Exchange Program. Collaborating with the Suzhou Embroidery Research Institute to translate his photographs into silk hand embroidered wall hangings, table pieces, and standing screens. This completely unique reinterpretation of his imagery in a textile form merges eastern and western concepts in art, and the modern process of photography with the 2,500 year old Chinese tradition of silk embroidery. Website: www.robertglennketchum.com |
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Tom Till - Tom Till is one of America's most published photographers. Over 100,000 of his images have appeared in print since 1977. In 1998, Till opened the Tom Till Gallery in Moab, Utah. Till's images depict landscape, nature, history, and travel subjects worldwide, including all fifty states and nearly sixty countries overseas.
Till's stock photography images have been featured by National Geographic Magazine, The New York Times, Outside Magazine, Canon Copiers, Delta Airlines, The New Yorker Magazine, Life Magazine, Browntrout Calendars, Eastman Kodak, Reader's Digest, Rand McNally, MGM, Arizona Highways, Lonely Planet, and thousands of others.
Using mainly a large format (4 x 5) camera, Till travels extensively to create new material. Recent trips have taken him to Qatar, Australia, France, Mexico, the Caribbean, China, South Africa, Brazil, and numerous sites in the United States. A 34-year resident of Moab, Utah, Till has one of the largest photo libraries in existence of the Four Corners region. Website: www.tomtill.com |
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Tyler Stableford - Colorado photographer and filmmaker Tyler Stableford has earned an international clientele for his commercial and editorial work. His clients include Disney, Patagonia, Stetson and The New York Times, among others.
Men’s Journal named Tyler one of the seven “World’s Greatest Adventure Photographers.” He is one of Canon’s distinguished Explorers of Light, as well an ambassador for the Sandisk Extreme Team and Adobe’s digital imaging software. Tyler and his team work seamlessly with stills, motion and audio to create powerful multimedia campaigns.
Tyler’s work has won numerous awards from Communication Arts, Photo District News, American Photography, the International Photography Awards, National Geographic Traveler, and more.
Tyler is a graduate of Dartmouth College. His passion for photography extends beyond commercial work: he volunteers to shoot at least one week per year for nonprofits, and is an active member of the environmental-business organization "1% For The Planet." Visit www.tylerstableford.com. |
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Wendy Shattil - For more than three decades Wendy has traveled North America and beyond to photograph wildlife and the outdoors. From her first job as a photographer on an archaeological excavation in the Middle East, Wendy created her own path in the field of outdoor photography. Wendy and longtime partner, Bob Rozinski, are the rarest of species - full time professional nature photographers.
Wendy was the first woman to win Grand Prize in the BBC “Wildlife Photographer of the Year” competition. Other awards and recognitions include Grand Prize in the Texas Valley Land Fund contest, the Philip Hyde Grant for Environmental Photography, the 2006 Environmental Stewardship Award from Denver Audubon, Outstanding Conservationist and Outstanding Business Partner of the Year from the Colorado Wildlife Federation, the NANPA Outstanding Service Award and the NANPA Fellowship.
As a Fellow in the International League of Conservation Photographers, Wendy has recently participated in two RAVEs. RAVE stands for Rapid Assessment Visual Expedition and is a concentrated effort by ILCP photographers to document an area of critical environmental interest in a limited period of time. The two subjects Wendy documented were the effects of the border wall on wildlife and habitat in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of south Texas and the migration corridor amid gas fields in Wyoming’s Red Desert.
Wendy and Bob’s specialties include endangered species and fragile habitats. They have produced twelve books and their images appear in virtually all nature and conservation magazines. Website www.dancingpelican.com |
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