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One of only five photographers ever featured in American Photo magazine’s “Master” series, Ketchum is one of the most influential voices in the American conservation movement. His most recent campaign aims to prevent the destruction of Southwest Alaska’s fisheries by exploitation of the area’s mineral resources

Garie Waltzer describes her black-and-white photographs of civic spaces—parks, pools, city streets—as “baroque.” She means that they are packed with active detail, both human and natural. “For me, place is an organism with structure, flow and collective narrative,” she explains. So when Waltzer arrived in East Hampton, New York, to photograph the arching elms (Ulmus americana) that line the streets of eastern Long Island’s famous summer resort, she was faced with a “decidedly quieter” kind of subject matter.

Based in North Carolina, Pons is co-founder of The Digital Photography Experience, an online digital learning center, and leads workshops through his own Wild Nature Tours. His work has been published in Sierra and Audubon magazines.

Hower has received an NEA fellowship for his documentary work, and his prints are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, among others. He is a founding partner of Quadrant Photography, a commercial studio in Jeffersonville, Indiana, across the Ohio River from his home in Louisville.