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IAN SHIVE
Receives Sierra Club’s ansel
adams award for Conservation
Photography
there’S no doUbt that ConServation
photographer Ian Shive has tremendous passion for his craft,
but his influence reaches far beyond the realm of just one
art form.
His photos and articles have graced the pages of
hundreds of publications and with the release of his first
conservation photography book, The National Parks: Our
American Landscape, Shive has become the leading chronicler
of America’s National Parks.
Earlier this year, Shive teamed with “One Tree Hill”
actors Stephen Colletti and James Lafferty for a fascinating
web series that encourages shedding technological comforts
to adventure in the American wilderness.
It’s no wonder that the Sierra Club recognized Shive
with this year’s Ansel Adams Award for Conservation
Photography.
Campus Circle catches up with Shive shortly after the
award announcement.
What does it mean to you, being given an award named for
Ansel Adams?
It is humbling (and surprising!) to be awarded anything that
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stems from such a luminary as Adams, but also by those who
have been awarded this before me, photographers whose
images sat as books on my shelves and hung on my walls
as a teenager serving subconsciously perhaps as glints of the
experiences I would one day seek out myself.
The true reward might be to know that my images
inspire the same one day.
In a 2009 interview with Campus Circle, you had stated:
“It’s not just taking pretty pictures. People can affect
change through photography.” What specific changes do
you most hope to inspire with your work?
The truth is, change comes from within each of us as an
individual. I hope that I can inspire people to seek out the
experiences our wild places lend us and that, in turn, those
experiences cause each individual to action.
I don’t want to tell people what they should do; I want
them to feel inspired to seek the answers themselves. Our
environment needs a conscious, smart-living society but
that must begin with a respect that is only discovered by
exploring places on your own.
What advice would you give aspiring photographers on the
path to discovering their passion?
Do what you love! Some people only focus on insects, others
on baby animals. If you are a photographer – and this is true
for any profession – you must first love what you do, and the
rest follows. It sounds like a cliché, but it’s worked for me and
many others before me.
Do you have any plans for another photo book or project
like “Wild Life”?
Yes, definitely. I’ve shot literally thousands of new images
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Photographer, author, film producer and environmental
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including many images in national parks since the
publication of the paperback in April. I am working on a new
volume of wild places all over the U.S. as well as continually
updating the national parks volume.
I’m also working on new videos and documentaries
along the lines of “Wild Life” – stay tuned!
For more information, visit ianshive.com.
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