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Peter Essick

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Born

in Hollywood, The United States

Website

https://www.PeterEssick.com

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Genre

Art, Nonfiction

Influences

Ansel Adams

Member Since

July 2020

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Peter Essick is a photographer, author, speaker, instructor, and drone pilot who specializes in nature and environmental themes. Named one of the 40 most influential nature photographers in the world by Outdoor Photography Magazine UK, Essick has been influenced by many noted American landscape photographers from Carleton Watkins to Robert Adams. His goal is to make photographs that move beyond mere documentation to reveal in careful compositions the human impact of development as well as the enduring power of the land.

Essick is the author of three books of his photographs, The Ansel Adams Wilderness, Our Beautiful, Fragile World and Fernbank Forest. He has photographed stories for National Geographic on many environmental issues including ...more

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Average rating: 4.42 · 60 ratings · 7 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Ansel Adams Wilderness,The 4.32 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Our Beautiful, Fragile World: The Nature and Environmental Photographs of Peter Essick 4.65 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2013 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fernbank Forest it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Work in Progress by Dan Chapman (Contributor), Peter Essick (Goodreads Author) (photographer) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“For me, the photographs I have taken to illustrate environmental issues have a special meaning. They have often had several lives beyond the Geographic story they were originally made for, usually in textbooks or to illustrate other editorial stories.”
― Peter Essick, Our Beautiful, Fragile World: The Nature and Environmental Photographs of Peter Essick

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“While taking pictures for the Altamaha story, I discovered that photographing nature was an important part of my healing process.”
― Peter Essick, Our Beautiful, Fragile World: The Nature and Environmental Photographs of Peter Essick