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Prize winning photographer Jack Dykinga's work reflects the
merging of a photojournalistic, documentary approach with large-format
landscape photography, focusing on environmental issues in the
United States and Mexico.
His images can be seen in a wide variety of publications
such as: Arizona Highways, Natural History, Outside, Harpers,
Sierra Club, Audubon, Wilderness Society, and National Geographic.
Jack's work has been featured with cover stories in Outdoor
Photographer, Popular Photography, and View Camera magazines
as well as being aired on NBC's Today Show and CNN's environmental
program: Earth Matters.
He has co-produced with writer Charles Bowden, four wilderness
advocacy books: Frog Mountain Blues, 1985, The Sonoran Desert,
1993, The Secret Forest, 1993 and spring 1996, Stone Canyons
of the Colorado Plateau.
In June of 1996, the Mexican government announced that the
Sierra Alamos, featured in The Secret Forest book, was designated
both a National Park and a U.N. Biosphere Preserve. In September
1996, President Clinton created the Grand Staircase-Escalante
National Monument by executive order, preserving the canyons
featured in Stone Canyons.
The Sierra Pinacate was published in 1996 by the University
of Arizona Press, documenting the U.N. Biosphere Preserve
in the Mexican state of Sonora. Jack's latest book: DESERT:
the Mojave & Death Valley from Harry N. Abrams was released
October 1999 and chosen for the Book-of-the-Month Club.
In Europe, Dykinga's work can be seen regularly in two signature
Weingarten calendars from Germany: The Desert Lives and USA:
Out in the West, and Lavigne calendars in France.
His images, along with work by David Muench and Ansel Adams
are featured in The Phoenix Art Museum retrospective of three
photographers that have contributed to Arizona Highways Magazine.
The show opened at Tuscon's Center For Creative Photography
in February and is currently at the Museum of Northern Arizona
through November.
On November 4, 1999, The Mexican World Wildlife Fund, Banamex
(corporate sponsor) and Agrupacion Sierra Madre presented
Jack with their Conservation Award for his documentation of
Mexico's protected areas.
Currently Jack is working on a new large-format book in an
effort to create a new Sonoran Desert National Park in Southwestern
Arizona.
URL:http://www.dykinga.com
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