Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer
National Geographic Contributor
Published Author of documentary photojournalism
Member of the first ever Rapid Assessment Visual Expedition for the International League of Conservation Photographers
Sonoran National Park Project Board Member
Historic Rockville Church
43 East Main Street, Rockville
Saturday, October 22nd at 7:00 pm
Pulitzer Prize (1971 Feature Photography) winning photographer Jack Dykinga blends fine art photography with documentary photojournalism. He is a regular contributor to Arizona Highways and National Geographic Magazines. His ten wilderness advocacy, large format books include: Frog Mountain Blues, The Secret Forest, The Sierra Pinacate, The Sonoran Desert, Stone Canyons of the Colorado Plateau, and Desert: The Mojave and Death Valley. He authored and photographed Large Format Nature Photography, a “how to” guide to color landscape photography. Jack’s ARIZONA, released in 2004 from Westcliffe Publishers, is a compilation of Jack’s best Arizona images. “Capture the Magic” released November 2013, delves into composition and the creative process. Jack’s latest book, “A Photographer’s Life” will be released in the fall of 2016.
Dykinga’s fine art images were featured along with the work of Ansel Adams in an Arizona Highways Magazine retrospective shown at the Phoenix Art Museum, The Center for Creative Photography, and the Museum of Northern Arizona.
Recent work includes:
Texas/Mexican border highlighting the biological diversity of protected areas along the Rio Grande River, appearing in the February 2007, National Geographic Magazine.
His illustration of the wilderness lands of Native American Tribes is featured in the August 2010 National Geographic.
Jack has donated his talents to the International Leagure of Conservation Photographer’s RAVEs (Rapid Assessment Visual Expeditions) El Triunfo, Mexico, 2007; Balandra 2007, Baja Sur, Mexico; the Yucatan 2009, Yucatan, Mexico; the U.S./ Mexico Borderlands 2009, as well as the 2010 Patagonia, Chile RAVE and the September 2010 Great Bear RAVE in B.C. Canada.
In each case, Jack and teams of celebrated photographers from all over the world pooled their collective talents to highlight potential environmental degradation.
In April 2010, Jack’s image “Stone Canyon” was selected as one of the forty best Nature Photographs of all time by the International League of Conservation Photographers and he received The 2011 Outstanding Photographer of the Year Award from the North American Nature Photography Association in March 2011 and has just been named the recipient of NANPA’s 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award.
He and his wife Margaret live in Tucson, Arizona. His daughter Camille Bralts lives in Champaign-Urbana. His son Peter Dykinga manages Jack’s image collection.
The way he sees it, everyone should “Taste life and strive to make a difference”.
We are grateful to Flanigans Inn for providing lodging accommodations.
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This event is supported in part by Utah Arts and Museums, with funding from the State of Utah and the National Endowment for the Arts. |
We are grateful to partner with Utah Humanities to bring Jack to the Zion Canyon.
This event is jointly supported by the Utah Humanities Book Festival and the Pulitzer Prizes Centennial Campfires Initiative. This initiative is a joint venture of the Pulitzer Prizes Board and the Federation of State Humanities Council in celebration of the 2016 centennial of the prizes and seeks to illuminate the impact of journalism and the humanities on American life today, to imagine their future, and to inspire new generations to consider the values represented by the body of Pulitzer Prize winning work.