Welcome to the inner world of Master Photographer Art Wolfe. Over a 30-year career, Mr Wolfe has chiseled out a spot for himself among modern photographic masters of our time. Art has produced well over 1 million photo images and has a library of 70 books published to date.
Art Wolfe is not your regular run-of-the-mill photographer, travel expenses for Wolfe's adventures are funded by Canon USA. Inc, The Microsoft Corporation and Conservation International. Seriously don't feel bad if your images don't measure up to Arts portfolio, it never hurts to get by with a little help from you're friend's! Arts friends just happen to have very deep corporate pockets.
Art get's to travel to the edge of the world more times than he can remember, sound like a job you would like to have? Being a master photographer and having his expenses paid by big corporations does not mean Mr Wolfe has not put in his due's to get to where he is today. Any photographer willing to travel to the four corners of the glob to capture a photograph of a frog sitting on an alligator's eye deserves to be given a chance to explore his or her passion to the fullest and thankfully there are still a few people out there who agree with my philosophy. A photographer should not have to work at a service station to pump gas for a living to have to pursue an education or career in photography, music, writing or any art form for that matter.
For Art Wolfe "photography and conservation go hand-in-hand" Mr Wolfe describes the union of art and Technology that is used to bring about change as well as educate and nudge the viewer in the right direction to be more environmentally conscious, to think about the world outside of themselves. Conservation photography received a gigantic injection of cash after the famous photo of Earth from the Apollo 17 spacecraft was published in the early 1970s. The view of Earth known as the Blue Marble has helped put into perspective the need for an environmentalism protection mandate to conserve the planet for future generations. Art believes his series of conservation photos have been used to help protect the Alaskan Arctic, Canadian Rivers and countless other locations Mr Wolfe's job has taken him to.
Some of Mr Wolfe's career highlights include,
- The public television series, Travels to the Edge with Art Wolfe
- The U.S. Postal Service has used Wolfe's photographs on two stamps
- He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society
- Serves on the advisory boards for the Wildlife Conservation Society
- Nature’s Best Foundation
- Bridges to Understanding
- Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP)
- Appeared in the Australian television series Tales by Light.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Wolfe
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