THE PHOTOGRAPHER

Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Jack Dykinga is one of America's most respected landscpe photographers. His skill in creating images that are at once majestic and factual support has made him a favorite of prestigious publications such as Arizona Highways magazine.

THE IMAGES

Jack'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. The 36x40 Fuji Crystal Archive prints of his work are breathtaking and highly valued by collectors.

MEDIA

Jack's photographs can be seen in a wide variety of publications such as Arizona Highways, Audubon, Harpers, National Geographic Society, Natural History, Sierra Club, Sunset, Time, The Wilderness Society, and Wildlife Conservation. His work has also been featured with portfolios spreads in Nature's Best, Outdoor Photographer, Photo Media, Popular Photography, and View Camera magazines, as well as being featured on NBC's Today Show, CNN's Earth Matters and KAET's "Images of Arizona" (PBS, Phoenix).

BOOKS

Jack both wrote and photographed his latest book, Large Format Landscape Photography (Amphoto, 2001). It's an instructional user's guide written to demystify the highly technical world of four by five view cameras. Jack has co-produced (with writer Charles Bowden), four wilderness advocacy books: Frog Mountain Blues, 1985, The Sonoran Desert, 1993, The Secret Forest, 1993, and in 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 1998 by the University of Arizona Press, documenting the U.N. Biosphere Preserve in the Mexican state of Sonora.

Jack's book, DESERT: The Mojave & Death Valley (Harry N. Abrams) was published in October 1999 and selected for the Book-of-the-Month Club.

GEAR, FILM, IMAGE TRACKING

Dykinga works in the the Four by Five-inch format using both Arca Swiss and Wista cameras. His lens choice for color and incredible sharpness is Schneider (www.schneideroptics.com) using the following focal lengths:

• 58mm Super-Angulon XL
• 80mm Super-Symmar Aspherical
• 110mm Super-Symmar Aspherical
• 120mm Super-Symmar High Modulation
• 180mm APO Symmar
• 240mm APO Symmar
• 400mm Tele-Xenar AP

Jack's film choice is primarily Fuji Velvia along with some Provia III in both 4X5 format and in both the Horseman 6X12 panoramic format. He also uses the Pentax 67II with both 45mm and 300mm lenses in the 6X7 format for fast moving situations. The Fuji 6X17 Panoramic Camera with a 90mm lens is his wide perspective camera, while the Olympus C-4040 is Jack's 4.1 megapixel digital point and shoot camera. His packs are the Pro-Trekker, Super-Trekker, S&F Rover Light, and the new Dry Zone 2000 (a water proof pack) for slot canyon swims. All are manufactured by Lowepro (www.lowepro.com).

Jack Dykinga Photography uses the Agave Stock Photography System software to track our images. It allows us to offer our clients the very best in image tracking.

INTERNATIONAL EXPOSURE

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, as well as in Lavigne calendars in France. 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 in November 1999.

In May 2002 Jack was a featured speaker to the Royal Photographic Society of Scotland.

In 1999 and 2000, his images, along with work by David Muench and Ansel Adams were featured at both The Phoenix Art Museum and The Center For Creative Photography as a retrospective of their images from Arizona Highways magazine.

Editor's Comment: You can see more from Jack on his website at http://www.dykinga.com.

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