This year, the Annual Awards Celebration is part of your registration fee. The awards celebration will be a special luncheon on Friday, February 19. Everyone is invited to attend.
NANPA Award and Recognition Presentations
Feb 19, 2009
12:30 AM to
1:00 PM
NANPA Award and Recognition Presentations: (in order of presentation)
• Corporate Members
• Board Recognition Award for Outstanding Service:
Arthur Morris & Francine Butler
• NANPA Vision Award: Ian McAllister
• NANPA Mission Awards: Cristina Mittermeier
• Community Recognition Award: Adobe
• Fellows Awards:
Kevin Fitz Patrick & Mary Ann McDonald
• Outstanding Nature Photographer of the Year Award: Joel Sartore
• Lifetime Achievement Awards: Sebastian Salgado
Awards Celebration Speaker - Joel Sartore
Feb 19, 2010
7:30 PM
to
8:30 PM
Grounded: A Reflection on the Use of Life and Land
When Joel Sartore's wife Kathy was diagnosed with breast cancer, this National Geographic photographer, who had traveled the world for 18 years, knew it was time to stay home. Joel candidly recounts his career photographing everything from flesh-eating pigs to beer-drinking, mountain-running firefighters, and shares how his wife's illness made him stop and think.
During the course of Kathy's treatment, Joel started a new project that would keep him closer to home: documenting the planet's disappearing biodiversity through nearby zoos. The time he spent "grounded" triggered in Joel a reconnection with family and with the reason he takes pictures in the first place - to show people that wild places and Earth's creatures need and deserve protection.
A lifelong Nebraskan, Joel Sartore brings a sense of humor and a Midwestern work ethic to all of his assignments. More than 20 years of experience, including more than 15 with the National Geographic Society, have allowed him to cover everything from the remote Amazon rain forest to the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew. Joel has also shot for Life, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated and Time, and contributed to numerous book projects.
He has authored several books of his own, including Photographing Your Family, Face to Face with Grizzlies, and Nebraska: Under a Big Red Sky. Joel and his work have been the subject of several broadcasts. Among them are National Geographic Channel's Explorer, NBC Nightly News, NPR's Weekend Edition and a PBS documentary. He is also a regular contributor on CBS News' Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood. Joel has received numerous awards from Communication Arts, Pictures of the Year International and other venues, and is one of the University of Nebraska's Distinguished Alumni.
