Peter Essick

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Peter Essick is an American photojournalist . He is considered one of the 40 most influential nature photographers worldwide. Essick is best known for reporting on various environmental topics, including global warming and environmental pollution .

life and work

Essick holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Southern California and a masters degree in photojournalism from the University of Missouri .

He has published about 40 articles on National Geographic since the late 1980s .

Since a project about water pollution in 1993, Essick has dealt with various environmental issues in his photo reports . One of his most important reports dealt with climate change (2004). His photographs have appeared in the film An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore and in the book Climate Change: Picturing the Science by Gavin Schmidt and Joshua Wolfe.

Further work deals with radioactive waste , electronic waste , the petroleum industry , pesticides , and the effects of environmental toxins on humans (e.g. the effects of Agent Orange ). Another focus of Essick is landscape photography .

Essick was mainly inspired by the work of Ansel Adams , to whom he has dedicated an illustrated book. Other role models are Eliot Porter , Robert Adams and Eugène Atget , as well as John Muir and Terry Tempest Williams.

Essick lives in Atlanta with his wife Jackie and son Jalen .

Publications

  • Our Beautiful, Fragile World: The Nature and Environmental Photographs of Peter Essick , Rocky Nook, December 12, 2013, ISBN 978-1937538347 .
  • The Ansel Adams Wilderness , National Geographic, estimated April 15, 2014, ISBN 978-1426213298 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Peter Essick - Bio ( Memento of the original from December 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved December 15, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / peteressick.com
  2. ↑ National Geographic Photographer Peter Essick on Our Beautiful, Fragile World. Interview on: greenglobaltravel.com, December 4, 2013. Accessed December 15, 2013.
  3. ^ William F. Hewitt: The big picture. Words matter as much as images in communicating climate change. Review of the book Climate Change: Picturing the Science . In: Nature Reports Climate Change , May 14, 2009. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
  4. ^ Peter Essick - Profile on National Geographic . Retrieved December 15, 2013.
  5. ↑ a b Dennis Dimick: Peter Essick's Journey into Environmental Photojournalism. In: National Geographic , December 11, 2013. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
  6. ^ Rosalind Bentley: Paying tribute with pictures. From: accessatlanta.com, October 26, 2011. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Essick, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century