International League of Conservation Photographers

The International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to furthering environmental and cultural conservation through ethical photography

Photography

Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...

. It was founded in 2005 by Cristina Mittermeier

Cristina Mittermeier

-Biography:Born as Cristina Sofía Goettsch Cabello in Mexico City, Mexico. Is a Mexican marine biologist, photographer and biochemical engineer. She has coauthored several books for both popular and scientific audiences, and has coauthored several scientific papers as well as numerous magazine...

and others at the 8th World Wilderness Congress

World Wilderness Congress

The World Wilderness Congress is the longest-running, public international environmental forum and is the flagship project of .The 1st WWC was held in South Africa in 1977 and has had a total of 8 meetings. It was founded by South African conservationist Dr Ian Player and Laurens van der Post...

in Alaska

Alaska

Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...

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The ILCP conducts Rapid Assessment Visual Expeditions or RAVEs to locations where threats to biodiversity are imminent. Teams of specialized ILCP photographers enter the region to produce a comprehensive picture of the area in a short amount of time. The images collected are then used to bring awareness to the threat

List of ILCP Photographers

Alison Jones
Amy Gulick

Amy Gulick

Amy Gulick is an American nature and wildlife photographer. She is one of the founding Fellows of the International League of Conservation Photographers...

Annie Griffiths
Art Wolfe

Art Wolfe

Art Wolfe is an American photographer, television host, conservationist, photography teacher and artist. He is most notably known for his color photographs of wildlife, nature and cultures.- Image manipulation :...

Balan Madhavan
Beverly Joubert
Bob Rozinski
Boyd Norton
Brian Skerry

Brian Skerry

Brian Skerry is an underwater photojournalist who works primarily for National Geographic magazine.Skerry was born in Milford, Massachusetts in 1962, and grew up in Uxbridge. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in media and communications from Worcester State College in 1984...

Carlton Ward Jr.
Chris Rainier
Christian Ziegler
Colin Prior

Colin Prior

Colin Prior, born in Milngavie, Glasgow in 1958, is a landscape photographer.Prior takes panoramic landscape photographs of Scotland and around the world. He uses the 617 panoramic format extensively in his work shooting Fuji Velvia generally in the "golden hour" at dawn and dusk...

Connie Bransilver
Cristina Mittermeier

Cristina Mittermeier

Daniel Beltra

Daniel Beltrá is an assignment photographer for Greenpeace, working principally on conservation photography. A member of the International League of Conservation Photographers, Beltra has won the Prince's Rainforests Project award at the Sony world photography awards and the inaugural "Global...

David Doubilet

David Doubilet is a well known underwater photographer known primarily for his work published in National Geographic Magazine. He was born in New York and started taking photos underwater at the young age of 12. He started with a Brownie Hawkeye in a rubber anesthesiologist's bag to keep the water...

Flip Nicklin
Florian Mollers
Florian Schulz

Florian Schulz

-Biography:Florian Schulz is a professional nature and wildlife photographer based in southern Germany whose striking images have garnered international recognition.-Photographic Career:...

Frans Lanting

Frans Lanting, is a Dutch photographer specializing in wildlife photography.Lanting was born in Rotterdam and later emigrated to the United States after being educated in the Netherlands. He now lives in Santa Cruz, California and operates a studio and gallery, as well as a stock photography...

Garth Lenz
Gary Braasch
Igor Shpilenok
Jack Dykinga

Jack Dykinga

Jack William Dykinga is an American photographer. He won the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.He worked for the Chicago Tribune, and the Chicago Sun Times.He moved to Arizona....

James Balog

James Balog is an American photographer whose work revolves around the relationship between humans and nature. For nearly 30 years, James Balog re-defined environmental photography, whether his subject was endangered animals, giant trees, or Arctic ice sheets....

Jim Brandenburg

Jim Brandenburg is an environmentalist and nature photographer and filmmaker based near Ely, Minnesota. His career includes over 10 years as a newspaper photojournalist, over 30 years as a contract photographer for the National Geographic Society, and commissions from such groups as the United...

Joel Sartore

Joel Sartore is an American photographer known for his National Geographic magazine assignments.-Background:...

Kevin Schafer
Klaus Nigge
Leo and Dorothy Keeler
Luciano Candisani
Matthias Breiter
Michael "Nick" Nichols
Michael Aw

Michael Aw

Michael Aw is a marine photographer and author based in Sydney Australia. He was born in Singapore; his professional career is in advertising and marketing working mainly in main stream advertising agencies based in Australia, USA and Singapore. He quit in 1991 to shoot professionally focus mainly...

Michael Forsberg

Michael Forsberg is an American photographer. Many of his photographs depict landscapes and wildlife of the Great Plains. Some of his work is found in the Great Plains Art Museum of the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln...

Michele Westmorland

Michele Westmorland is an American photographer who specializes in underwater photography. Westmorland is also a proud fellow with the International League of Conservation Photographers and The Explorers Club.. She runs her own company, Westmorland LLC, in Redmond, Washington where she resides....

Niall Benvie
Norbert Rosing
Patricio Robles Gil
Paul Nicklen

Paul Nicklen

Paul Nicklen is a Canadian biologist, and photographer.- Biography :Paul Nicklen was born in Saskatchewan Province but grew up in an Inuit community on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic....

Pete Oxford
Phil Borges

Phil Borges

Phil Borges is a social documentary photographer and filmmaker.For over twenty five years Phil Borges has documented indigenous and tribal cultures around the world. Through his exhibits, books and multimedia projects, he strives to create a heightened understanding of issues faced by people in...

Piotr Naskrecki
Robert Glenn Ketchum

Robert Glenn Ketchum

Robert Glenn Ketchum is a landscape and nature photographer whose work has a strong environmental advocacy message.-Life and career:...

Roy Toft
Staffan Widstrand
Stephen G. Maka
Steve Winter

Steve Winter

Steve Winter is a game designer who has worked on numerous products for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game from TSR and later Wizards of the Coast.-Early life:Steve Winter was born in Dubuque, Iowa on December 8, 1957...

Suzi Eszterhas
Theo Allofs
Thomas Mangelsen
Thomas Peschak
Tim Laman
Tom Blagden
Tui De Roy
Wade Davis

Wade Davis

Edmund Wade Davis is a Canadian anthropologist, ethnobotanist, author and photographer whose work has focused on worldwide indigenous cultures, especially in North and South America and particularly involving the traditional uses and beliefs associated with psychoactive plants...

Wendy Shattil
Xi Zhinong

External links

International League of Conservation Photographers web site

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