After 12 years, we catch up with our past Photography Person of the Year award-winner, Robert Glen Ketchum, to see how his career has progressed.

Over the last decade, nature photographer Robert Glenn Ketchum has continued using his imagery to help protect the ecosystem of Southwest Alaska and the Bristol Bay fishery from the development of the Pebble Mine, a project he began in 1998. In 2006, the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, assembled a...

California-based photographer Robert Glenn Ketchum is exhibiting his latest work at Connecticut's Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies through Dec. 9.

The installment, called "Metamorphosis: The Collaboration Between Photographer Robert Glenn Ketchum and...

Robert Glenn Ketchum, a fellow with the International League of Conservation Photographers, was featured in the March/April issue of American Photo magazine as the fifth photographer to appear in the publication's Masters Series. To date, Ketchum is the only photographer in the series whose imagery is based mostly on the natural world rather than on people, fashion and...

Last November, Robert Glenn Ketchum was the keynote speaker at the American Bald Eagle Foundation's Alaska Chilkat Bald Eagle Festival 2003, held in Haines, Alaska. In addition, Ketchum was a speaker at the North American Nature Photography Association's 10th Anniversary Summit in Portland, Ore., in January.

Earlier this year, Aperture Foundation bestowed its Lifetime Achievement Award in Photography and Conservation upon Robert Glenn Ketchum (robertglennketchum.com). The award was presented during Aperture’s 50th anniversary gala at Sotheby’s New York. At the same ceremony, Henri Cartier-Bresson received the Aperture/Michael E. Hoffman Award.

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Los Angeles photographer Robert Glenn Ketchum is traveling in Germany this autumn and will be the featured speaker at the Internationales Naturfoto-Festival 2002 in Lunen, Germany, on Oct. 6. In addition, an exhibition of Ketchum’s work, “Changing Perspective,” will be held at the festival from Oct. 4 through Nov. 16, at Lunen’s Hilpert Theater.

Like so many things in life, photography runs in cycles based on reaction and a desire for change, even if that means reinventing the wheel at times. Sometimes these changes lack the proper historical perspective of all that has gone before. Other times, the changes sought harken back to seemingly safer, more predictable times.

In the post-Civil War years, American photographers began turning their attention from the war to the West. They brought home images of the incredible, endless landscapes of the new frontier to an East hungry for expansion. They built an enthusiasm for these places that would help lead to the founding of the national park system, starting with Yellowstone National Park in 1872.

Today, more than a century later, nature photographers are still bringing home images...

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