My Photographer of the week is Art Wolfe. Art is an award-winning wildlife photographer from Seattle, Washington and has been blowing people away with his photos for over 50 years. He graduated from the University of Washington with Bachelor’s degrees in fine arts and art education in 1975. In 1978, he published his first book with Dr Allan Lobb called, "Indian Baskets of the Northwest Coast". Dr. Lobb loved Wolfe's work so much that he began putting it up in the Swedish Medical Center, where it began to be notarized by people all over the world. Over his 50 years of photography, he has taken an estimated 3 million photos and has traveled to every continent to do so. Wolfe's work has been seen in the National Geographic, Smithsonian, Audubon, GEO, and Terre Sauvage. What I love most about his work is the passion for his pictures, and how he continues to find the beauty in everything around him. When I presented to the class, you mentioned that Wolfe had been critiqued for editing his pictures so much that it made them look fake. I think that there is definitely a fine line between editing your photos and changing your photos completely, but at the same time Art has traveled all over the world just to show people how beautiful it truly is. If there is one thing that I’ve learned from this class, it’s that a photo is not just something beautiful, it is a story that can affect people in so many different ways. I believe that Art may use a little extra editing than needed but never fails to capture the beautiful world that we live in.
Works Cited:
“Nature & Cultural Photography 1-888-973-0011.” Art Wolfe, artwolfe.com/.
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