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Gary Braasch's keystone project since 2000 has been World View of Global Warming, which is the original dedicated photo documentation of the effects of rapid climate change. Gary is the only photojournalist who has journeyed extensively including to China, Australia, Tuvalu, Antarctica, the Arctic and the great mountains of the world documenting climate science and the effects of change. An exhibit of 30 prints on climate change has been exhibited at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington DC and at Chicago's Field Museum. Gary's comprehensive book Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming is Changing the World (University of California Press) was published in 2007 and will be issued in paper, fully updated, in March 2009. Praise for this book has come from Al Gore, members of the Nobel Prize winning scientific community of the world, Vanity Fair, Nature, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Bill McKibben and Paul Hawken. Photographs from this and other projects made up the entire 2007 calendar published by the United Nations Rio Conventions (climate change, biodiversity and anti-desertification), which was presented at the UN Climate Talks in Nairobi. The United Nations used Braasch's images exclusively for a set of six stamps about climate change in 2008. He is a member of the IUCN Commission on Education and Communications, a UN-affiliated body dedicated to preservation of wild places, cultures and creatures, and is a frequent speaker at environmental conferences and global warming seminars. Gary Braasch is internationally known for dramatic, artistic and science-based nature photography. His work has won awards from Communication Arts and New York Art Directors Club and was the lead portfolio in a major collection of current photojournalism, What Matters (Sterling Press, 2008) along with work by Sebastiao Salgado. James Natchwey, Ed Kashi and others. His climate change work was a feature at Visa pour l'Image in Perpignan. He lectured in 2010 at the Phoenix Art Museum about time and motion in photography, in conjunction with an exhibit of Ansel Adams' works; and in 2007 at the Explorers Club Hq in New York. Major assigned articles and portfolios of Gary's photography have appeared during recent years in Time, LIFE, Discover, Audubon, National Wildlife, Smithsonian, Scientific American, International Wildlife, Natural History, Sierra, Animals, French Terre Sauvage, French Photo, Outdoor Photographer, Photo District News, 2wice, BBC Wildlife and the Swiss Animan magazine. In his career Gary has also illustrated major articles for National Geographic, Popular Photography, and Wildlife Conservation magazines, among several hundred publications who have published his work. His active library of detailed stock nature and travel photography serves hundreds of publishers and designers. Most of this work is on conservation or natural history subjects, the coverage of which gained Gary the Ansel Adams Award from the Sierra Club in the U.S., and the Outstanding Nature Photographer citation from the North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA). He was a founding Board Member of NANPA and a founding Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers. Gary is a nature photo-journalist, whose articles illustrate a global environmental reach: Antarctic seabird research (International Wildlife), Great Smoky Mountains National Park biodiversity (Audubon), the threat of oil drilling in Alaska's arctic (BBC Wildlife), tropical forest studies in Peru (The Nature Conservancy), anaconda research in Venezuela (Smithsonian), honeybees and native pollinators (Natural History), endangered wood stork nesting in the Everglades (Audubon), rare plant rescue in Hawaii (Smithsonian and Discover), and climate change in Florida and Alaska (Natural Resources Defense Council). In photographic assignments he specializes in recording the essence of whole ecosystems and threats to their biodiversity, employing techniques from aerial photography to extreme close-ups and underwater shots. Projects on ancient forests of North America, Mount St. Helens volcano, a single tropical tree, an Everglades alligator hole, and a tide pool have resulted in a book and major articles in Life magazine. Gary is known for action coverage of risk-taking field science, including volcanoes, forest canopy studies, and Antarctic geologic research. Gary is an active contributor to environmental efforts ranging from forest preservation in his home state of Oregon to international conservation campaigns. He lives in Portland.
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Gary Braasch is a world caliber environmental photojournalist who creates remarkable images and important documentation about nature, environment, biodiversity and global warming. Time, LIFE, Discover, Smithsonian, National Geographic, Scientific American and the United Nations have published his images. He received the Ansel Adams Award from the Sierra Club and the Outstanding Nature Photographer citation from the North American Nature Photography Association. Gary Braasch is author of Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming is Changing the World, which Al Gore calls "essential reading for every citizen." An exhibit of giant prints and educational images, 