RTPI Opens Nature Photography Exhibit Aug. 8 | Information, Sports activities, Jobs

The Roger Tory Peterson Institute will open its subsequent exhibit, Knowing Where to Stand, the first-ever exhibition of all present and previous award-winning Environmental Impact Award-winning images tasks awarded by the North American Nature Photography Association.

An opening evening celebration for the exhibition is scheduled for Friday, Aug. 8, from 5:30 to eight p.m. In addition to lite bites, drinks and reside music, the night will function a short program by RTPI’s CEO Arthur Pearson and the exhibition curator, Rachael Kosinski. The exhibition runs via March 2026.

The exhibition additionally marks a reunion between RTPI and NANPA. In addition to his worldwide fame as artist and writer of the Peterson Field Guide to Birds, Roger Tory Peterson was an completed nature photographer. In the early Nineties, he invited 100 fellow nature photographers to RTPI to debate the way forward for nature images. That assembly sparked the founding of the North American Nature Photography Association in 1994.

“We are thrilled to be reunited with NANPA,” Pearson mentioned. “Their Environmental Impact Award is a powerful affirmation that Art Matters to the Planet.”

The title of the upcoming exhibition, Knowing Where to Stand, takes its cue from famend nature photographer, Ansel Adams, who famously quipped that “a good photograph is knowing where to stand.” The award-winning photographers featured within the exhibition at RTPI additionally know the place they stand on the crucial conservation challenges of our time.

Among the award winners who shall be featured within the exhibition is James Balog, whose documentary movie, “Chasing Ice,” has screened in additional than 170 nations and is the recipient of quite a few awards, together with the Doc Award, which celebrates movies which have made the best influence on society. Other featured winners embrace Daniel J. Cox (Arctic Documentary Project), Tom Blagden (The Grand Canyon), Krista Schlyer (The Borderlands Project), Clay Bolt (Protecting North America’s Native Bees), Michael Forsberg, “Platte Basin Time Lapse), Carlton Ward, Jr., Mallory Dimmit and Joe Guthrie, (Florida Wildlife Corridor), Nial Benvie and Clay Bolt (Meet your Neighbors.)

The exhibition will function, too, the 2025 Environmental Impact Award winner, Amy Gulick for “The Salmon Way: An Alaska State of Mind.”

“I’m honored to receive the Environmental Impact Award,” Gulick mentioned lately. “I’m grateful to all and for the opportunity to continue to make the case for Life on Earth.”

The exhibition additionally affords the chance for RTPI to reunite with its former chief government, Twan Leenders. In addition to authoring his personal discipline information for the reptiles and amphibians of Costa Rica, Leenders is an completed nature photographer, whose work options prominently as half “Meet Your Neighbors,” one of many Environmental Impact Award-winning tasks. Some of Leenders’ photographs shall be featured within the exhibition, as properly. Leenders additionally plans to conduct a images program throughout the run of the exhibition.

The exhibition is sponsored by the Nature Photography Foundation (previously the NANPA Foundation.)