Sam Abell. Look3 Charlottesville, VA Our mission is to celebrate the vision of extraordinary photographers, ignite conversations about critical issues, and foster the next generation of artists. Born and raised in Charlottesville, Virginia, he is thrilled to be working at the local and global level to protect the diversity of the Amazon.
Luis E. Trained as a tropical ecologist, Luis is an expert on the environmental impacts of artisanal scale mining on tropical landscapes, particularly on the effects of mercury contamination on wildlife and indigenous communities. Luis has led research efforts to study and address mining-related mercury contamination in Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and Madagascar. His research focuses on improving understanding of the global mercury cycle, particularly emissions from the artisanal gold mining sector, and its regional and global effects on forests, ecosystems and human populations.
Silman is a Professor of Biology. His work centers on understanding biodiversity distribution and the response of forests ecosystems to past and future climate and land use changes. His current projects also address Andean and Amazonian carbon cycles and biodiversity controls for use in innovative, private- and public-sector, ecosystem services projects that change land use by generating revenue for conservation and creating economic and social value for local participants.
He has 20 years of experience in the Andes and Amazon and is coordinator and founding member of the Andes Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research Group. Miles has been a constant supporter since its inception and has assisted the organization with his expertise and knowledge of the Amazon.
The work is focused on the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes and the adjacent Amazonian plain, with a particular emphasis in distributions along environmental gradients, be they in space or time, and includes both empirical work and modeling. Thomas E. Lovejoy, a tropical biologist and conservation biologist, has worked in the Amazon of Brazil since He received his B.
From to he directed the conservation program at World Wildlife Fund-U. From to , he served as chief biodiversity adviser to the President of the World Bank. Thomas Lovejoy developed the debt-for-nature swaps, in which environmental groups purchase shaky foreign debt on the secondary market at the market rate, which is considerably discounted, and then convert this debt at its face value into the local currency to purchase biologically sensitive tracts of land in the debtor nation for purposes of environmental protection.
In reality, no debt-for-nature swap occurs without the approval of the country in question. Thomas Lovejoy has also supported the Forests Now Declaration, which calls for new market-based mechanisms to protect tropical forests.
Lovejoy played a central role in the establishment of conservation biology, by initiating the idea and planning with B. The proceedings, introduced conservation biology to the scientific community. Lovejoy serves on many scientific and conservation boards and advisory groups, is the author of numerous articles and books. He has served in an official capacity in the Reagan, George H. What was the connection between learning photography with your father and building up an interest in photography and then starting to make it a profession before National Geographic?
That honor came at the right time in my life. Then I was handed off into student publications, I was editor of the student yearbook and editor of the paper, and photographer for both those publications in high school.
I was photographer and editor for the college yearbook as well. So I would say the key bridge between my 14 year old self and my 24 year old self was student publications. It really did change my life. I had it in my mind that I was a Life Magazine photographer on assignment to photograph life at the University of Kentucky for one year. The content of that first book was inspired directly by a very influential moment in my life when I was 15 or I went to a conference with my Dad called the Kent State University Short Course in Photojournalism, which was a kind of trade show but they had lectures and demonstrations and so forth.
It was designed to be an annual meeting of the Ohio Newspaper Photographers Association but anyone else could come, people like my dad who ran Camera Clubs at High Schools. There was a staff photographer from National Geographic that gave a talk.
I think that changed my life. I think seeing that such a person was a real person and not just a byline in a far off ivory tower. Seeing him in the same room that I was in and my dad was in, he was normalized and I think it formed the idea that I could attain it. The other thing that had happened there was that I had picked up a publication called The Student , which was a not a Yearbook.
It was a soft bound photographic book on life at Kent State that year and it was exactly what I did at the University of Kentucky seven years later. The editor of that was a guy named Laird Brown, and he went on to be an intern at National Geographic several years before me. I still have my copy of The Student.
What was the crossover from going to the Newspaper Conference and starting to work for National Geographic? That summer in order to stay in Lexington and work on the Yearbook I took a job as a newspaper reporter. They gave me the overnights, which were weather, obituaries and the night police reports. Interesting summer, but not one that took all my attention and I had hours by myself in the empty newsroom at night. One night I was reading a copy of Popular Photography Magazine and there was a feature on National Geographic photography and a little breakout box in the story on the Director of Photography, Robert Gilka.
In the article there was a mention that Gilka had recently instituted a Summer Internship Program. I remember shutting the magazine and that I was leaning back in my chair.
I landed the chair on all four legs, put a piece of paper in the typewriter and wrote Robert Gilka, and I got an internship that summer. At the time he hired me all of the photographers from Life Magazine were being furloughed into freelance and he could have hired any of those people.
Instead he hired a generation of photographers, my generation, that would fill the pages of the Geographic for the next 30 years. He took chances but he did it by listening to himself and judged the potential of the person sitting next to him.
Carroll was an interesting guy. His real name was Charles Dodgson and he was a mathematician who came to Oxford as a High School grad and never left. He rose up to be the head of the Math department at Oxford, and in that role he had to interview incoming potential Math students. I guess when Gilka looked at me I was smoking. But, as I like to tell people, I had one job interview in my life and it was to be an intern at National Geographic.
Three years later I was a contract photographer, that was For 20 years I was a contract photographer, and then for 10 years, from to , I was a staff photographer, and then I retired from the Geographic. Abell records everyday physical existence but simultaneously suggests other possibilities. It is this steady looking for another life behind things that characterizes his work.
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