HIN CHUA: After The Fall

from the series After The Fall
Photograph (c) Hin Chua /All Rights Reserved

from the series After The Fall
Photograph (c) Hin Chua /All Rights Reserved

from the series After The Fall
Photograph (c) Hin Chua /All Rights Reserved

from the series After The Fall
Photograph (c) Hin Chua /All Rights Reserved

"For me, these photographs explore the effects of the conflicts and collisions that are gradually and chaotically reshaping the spaces around us, played out in slow motion with unpredictable, often disturbing results. This silent hand-over, the transformation of one environment into another, may speak to something deeper within our collective memories: the alteration of places we once knew, an inexorable reminder of the inevitability of change… a farewell to personal Edens"–Hin Chua

Hin Chua

OLAF OTTO BECKER | Above Zero Book Review. photo-eye Magazine

POINT 660, 08/2008
Photograph (c) Olaf Otto Becker /All Rights Reserved

Becker photographed glaciologist and climate researchers, Konrad Steffen and seven scientists, at their measuring station, Swiss Camp, where they work on predicting the planet's future. Even at Point 660, a popular tourist spot, taking photographs of one another proudly in this formidable landscape may soon be over. 

RIVER 3, POSITION 1, 07/2008
Photograph (c) Olaf Otto Becker /All Rights Reserved

Olaf Otto Becker | Above Zero

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Becker is a modern day explorer, no less a pioneer than his famous "pole fever" predecessors, from Carsten Borchgrevink, the first Norwegian explorer to set foot in Antarctica, to Ernest Shackleton's well-known Endurance expedition. Between 2003 and 2006, Becker traveled a total of 2,500 miles up and down the coast of Greenland in a rigid inflatable boat...One hundred years from now his photographs may be all that's left to view of this extraordinary world. — From Elizabeth Avedon's photo-eye Review of Above Zero

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Picnic Table, Queenstown, New Zealand 2008 Edition of 20 $40

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CYCLING THE WORLD: Global Citizen Furtemba Sherpa Promotes Peace

"My Name is Furtemba Sherpa, I am a world Cyclist.
I have left Nepal December 25, 2003"

New York City

Italy

Helping in Haiti

Iguaçu Falls, South America

The Healing Center of "John of God"
Casa de Dom Ignacio, Abadiania, Brazil

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Furtemba Sherpa, World Tour Cyclist

"My name is Furtemba Sherpa, a Global Citizen. Originally, I am from a small village called Sankuasabha in Nepal. At the age of 26, I started world cycle tour with the cause of "World Peace and Environmental Protection." Since 2003, I had been cycling to 46 countries and intend to cycle 150 countries all together which should be done by 2020."

Furtemba Sherpa is the great-grandson of Tenzing Norgay, who first reached the summit of Mount Everest in 1953 alongside Sir Edmund Hillary. Conquering the Himalayas has been considered by most Sherpas in Nepal as the pinnacle of success, but Furtemba is embarking on his dream to become the first Sherpa to cycle around the globe to promote his message of World Peace and Environmental Protection.

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PENTTI SAMMALLAHTI: Contemporary Finnish Photography

Cilento, Italy, 1999
Photograph © Pentti Sammallahti/ All rights reserved

Helsinki, Finland, 1973
Photograph © Pentti Sammallahti/ All rights reserved

Solovki, White Sea, Russia, 1992
Photograph © Pentti Sammallahti/ All rights reserved

Varanasi, India, 1999
Photograph © Pentti Sammallahti/ All rights reserved

Vicki Bohannon, photo-eye Galleries Photographer-at-Large (Vicki creates those perfect Book Tease's as well as redesigning and rebuilding the Gallery space for every new installation), has been a great champion of Pentti Sammallahti long before he became well known outside of photography circles. His exquisite toned gelatin-silver prints are often wait listed.

"Pentti Sammallahti is a benchmark figure in contemporary Finnish photography. His works depict nature eroded and broken down by civilization, but he does not put man and the environment in opposite camps. He sees an equal relationship, in which the power of brotherhood stemming from the environment frees man of his alienation and cosmic loneliness. Sammallahti is also known as a passionate seeker of the perfect printing method. The Opus series, launched by him, is an integral feature of contemporary Finnish book art."–photo-eye

Pentti Sammallahti Photo-Eye Gallery Book

LAURIE TüMER: Glowing Evidence

Glowing Evidence: Hector's Hands
Photograph (c) Laurie Tumer /All Rights Reserved

"I always thought of myself as environmentally aware, but a pesticide poisoning at home in 1998 motivated me to deepen my understanding. As I read more about the health and environmental consequences of pesticides, I expected pictures. When I saw none, I began to look for ways to make my own, to help me understand something difficult to imagine: the invisible ubiquity of pesticides, not only their presence on conventional farms but how they find their way unwittingly into our homes and our bodies. I found inspiration in the research of the environmental scientist Richard Fenske, who developed a safety-training demonstration using fluorescent tracer dyes and UV light to show farm workers who work with pesticides, pictures of their exposures despite protective gear...With support from Dr. Fenske's colleagues, I learned this technique, not necessarily for its usefulness to instruct but because of how unposed subjects seen under another visual spectrum appear theatrical, distilling a personal and collective story."

Laurie Tümer

MAASAI MARATHON: NYC Eco-Warriors

Kenyan's (click for bio's) Samson Parashina, Martin Sunte, and Parashi Ntanin in NYC to run the Marathon

Samson Parashina, Edward Norton, Parashi Ntanin, Andrew Wolff, Martin Sunte, Luca Belpietro, Founder of Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust

Parashi Ntanin with Dung Beetle

Kenyan Running Shoes

Huge Strangler Fig Tree, Sacred to the Maasai, in the Chyulu Forest

Maasai are natural runners, it is a part of their culture and tradition as warriors, so it seemed very organic to have some of these new generation ‘eco-warriors’ come brave the NY streets for their community–Edward Norton

NOVEMBER 1, 2009, actor Edward Norton and three Maasai Warriors from Kenya, will lead a team of 30 runners in the New York City Marathon to raise awareness and funds for the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust
MAASAI MARATHON

JOSE LUIS RODRÍGUEZ: Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009

Camera: Hasselblad 503CW
The Storybook Wolf (c) José Luis Rodríguez /All Rights Reserved

JOSE LUIS RODRIGUEZ won this year's Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009 Award, beating 43,135 entries from 94 countries and in over 17 categories. "In Spain, the population of Iberian wolves is thought to number 1000-2000 in the north, with a few isolated populations in the south. José Luis risked a slow shutter-speed to reveal the moonlit sky and conjure up the atmosphere of the place. He switched from using his Nikon D2X to a Hasselblad for the exact framing he had in mind." The 2010 competition launches in January. (UK Natural History Museum)

José Luis Rodríguez Gallery

SIMON ROBERTS: We English

South Downs Way, West Sussex, 8th October 2007
Copyright (c) Simon Roberts /All Rights Reserved

Holkham National Nature Reserve, Norfolk, 18th February 2008
Copyright (c) Simon Roberts /All Rights Reserved

Camel Estuary, Padstow, Cornwall, 27th September 2007
Copyright (c) Simon Roberts /All Rights Reserved

September 10-October 24, 2009
WE ENGLISH: SIMON ROBERTS
KLOMPCHING GALLERY

Roberts first monograph * Motherland
(* view Roberts impressive photographs of contemporary Russia)

NICK BRANDT: A Shadow Falls

Elephant Drinking, Amboseli, 2007
Copyright (c) Nick Brandt /All Rights Reserved

Rhinos in Lake, Nakuru, 2007
Copyright (c) Nick Brandt /All Rights Reserved

Portrait of Two Zebras Turning Heads, Ngorongoro Crater, 2005
Copyright (c) Nick Brandt /All Rights Reserved

Ostrich Egg Abandoned, Amboseli, 2007
Copyright (c) Nick Brandt /All Rights Reserved

September 25-November 28, 2009

Nick Brandt: A Shadow Falls
Photo-Eye Gallery, Santa Fe

Brandt's New Book A Shadow Falls Published by Abrams

DOUGLAS STOCKDALE: Insomnia

Insomnia Shanghai Heights (c) 2009 Douglas Stockdale/All rights reserved

Photograph (c) 2009 Douglas Stockdale/All rights reserved

Photograph (c) 2009 Douglas Stockdale/All rights reserved

An exploration of the feelings of detachment, disassociation, and loneliness that can occur when one leaves their family and home due to the need to travel alone. These feelings can be intensified when the travel also includes multiple time zones, different cultures and customs, changes in food and diet and other physical or emotional differences.

Insomnia: Hotel Noir Web Journal

The Photo Book Web Journal
Douglas Stockdale Website