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Steven Kazlowski Receives Sierra Club's Ansel Adams Award

18 October 2008
Published in Special Honors

The Sierra Club has bestowed wildlife photographer Steven Kazlowski with its Ansel Adams Award for his "superlative use of still photography to further a conservation cause." He was presented with the award at the Sierra Club's national dinner on Sept. 20.

Kazlowski's images have appeared in magazines such as Vanity Fair, Newsweek and Canadian Geographic. His recent book, "The Last Polar Bear," published by Braided River, is an eye-opening look at the...

Galen Rowell: A Legacy of Adventure

16 September 2006
Published in Landscape Photography

Mountain Light and the Sierra Club honor the memory of the legendary photographer with a 287-page retrospective book.

For many armchair explorers around the world, Galen Rowell has provided a unique and unadulterated glimpse of Alaska, Tibet, Yosemite, Patagonia and many other places in between. No other photographer in the last century has been as prolific and proficient in documenting his expeditions, often in some of the most inaccessible and inhospitable environments in the world.

Rowell collaborated with the Sierra Club and National Geographic on projects that took him from the peaks of the Himalayas to the wild seas surrounding Antarctica. Through his awe-inspiring photography and prose, he single-handedly raised...