Extreme Exposure
Exhibit
Oct 23, 2010 - Apr 17, 2011

Extreme Exposure was a group exhibit celebrating five photographers who thrive in environments that few dare to explore, braving dangerous conditions in order to capture rarely seen moments in the life of our planet.

For Extreme Exposure, the Photography Space collaborated with guest curatorial advisor Cristina Mittermeier, an award-winning photographer, conservationist and President of the International League of Conservation Photographers, to display a unique collection of alluring landscapes and intimate moments between artists and the wild creatures they capture in alarmingly close proximity.

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Featured Photographs

  • This 300‐foot redwood is roughly 1,500 years old and has the most complex crown structure scientists have ever mapped. A team of seven photographers collaborated with Nichols over 19 days; in one magic hour, they created this composite image of 84 individual images, which took 120 hours to stitch together.
    National Geographic Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, California 2009
    Photo by: Michael Nichols
  • A hippo surfs off the coast of Gabon. "Surfing hippos" are extremely rare; most hippopotamuses wade in rivers and lakes. These animals became protected after 13 national parks were created as a result of conservationist J. Michael Fay's Megatransect.
    National Geographic Loango National Park, Gabon, Africa 2003
    Photo by: Michael Nichols
  • Michael Nichols covered in "Sweat Bees" during the Megatransect.
    Ndoki National Park, Congo Basin, Africa 1999
    Photo by: Michael Nichols
  • A camera trap was set to capture this crocodile coming and going from its riverside den.
    National Geographic Zakouma National Park, Chad, Africa 2006
    Photo by: Michael Nichols
  • A tagged northern spoked owl swoops toward a researcher's lure in a young redwood forest.
    Photo by: Michael Nichols
  • "I spent three years photographing the Loxahatchee River before capturing its essence. One day, I got out of my canoe and, rather than paddling, walked down the river. I became one with the Loxahatchee and found perfect subjects for photographs everywhere I looked." ‐ Clyde Butcher
    Photo by: Clyde Butcher
  • "After tracking the moon phases for months, I positioned my camera on a ladder and snapped the shutter‐‐it didn't work. I took the lens off, pried open the shutter, replaced the lens and used the dark slide as a shutter, guessing at the exposure time. This is the result." ‐ Clyde Butcher
    Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida 1986
    Photo by: Clyde Butcher
  • "Big Cypress National Preserve is my home, so I'm partial to its beauty. Wherever I go, photographic opportunities abound." ‐ Clyde Butcher
    Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida 1999
    Photo by: Clyde Butcher
  • "I had been struck by this mangrove's sculptural beauty before, but the light hadn't been right to take a photograph. One summer morning everything came together. A survivor of Hurricane Donna in the 1960s, this mangrove was destroyed by Hurricane Andrew in 1992." ‐ Clyde Butcher
    Ten Thousand Islands, Florida 1989
    Photo by: Clyde Butcher
  • A polar bear swims submerged in Lancaster Sound in the Nunavut Territory of Canada, its image mirrored in the icy water. The continuous loss of ice platforms where polar bears forage has led to shorter hunting seasons, increasingly threatening their survival.
    Lancaster Sound, Nunavut, Canada June 2004
    Photo by: Paul Nicklen
  • In the land of the midnight sun, a polar bear hunts in ‐40°C temperatures at 3 a.m.
    Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada 1994
    Photo by: Paul Nicklen
  • A polar bear shakes off after a dive under the ice.
    Admiralty Inlet, Nunavut, Canada 1995
    Photo by: Paul Nicklen
  • A bowhead whale surfaces from a long dive at the floe edge.
    Lancaster Sound, Nunavut, Canada June 2007
    Photo by: Paul Nicklen
  • In spring, narwhals push into cracks and holes created by the receding ice pack as they migrate toward summer grounds. Narwhal tusks, once thought to be unicorn horns and prized by medieval royalty, have been valued for centuries. Today, the quest for their tusks threatens narwhal populations near Baffin Island, where photographer Paul Nicklen spent 12 years photographing the whales, hoping to give a voice to these gentle giants. Raised in the traditional Inuit village of Nunavut, Paul was deeply conflicted about covering the killing of narwhals. By drawing attention to overhunting and reckless methods, his pursuit of the issue could impact the livelihood of the local Inuit and would inevitably involve severing ties with old friends. In the end, Paul was moved to do the story in hopes of encouraging a dialogue about the way these animals are hunted.
    Admiralty Inlet, Baffin Island, Canada July 2006
    Photo by: Paul Nicklen
  • Narwhals cross tusks as they jockey for air.
    Lancaster Sound, Nunavut, Canada July 2006
    Photo by: Paul Nicklen
  • A narwhal wields a broken tusk as it catches a breath. The tusk will likely grow back.
    Admiralty Inlet, Baffin Island, Canada July 2006
    Photo by: Paul Nicklen
  • A male walrus flicks his tusks on the ice, sending a warning to the halfsubmerged photographer. The giant tusks of adult walruses can grow up to 90 centimeters long. Females prefer to congregate in Russian waters to the east, so the walrus population in Norway's Svalbard Archipelago is primarily male much of the year.
    Bellsund, Spitsbergen, Norway July 2007
    Photo by: Paul Nicklen
  • Encounters with polar bears have been one of the highlights of Paul Nicklen's career. Bear tracks on ice raise urgent questions about the tenuous road ahead for these endangered creatures.
    Lancaster Sound, Nunavut, Canada February 2007
    Photo by: Paul Nicklen
  • A walrus returns to shore after diving and feeding on clams. The walrus population has slowly increased since Norway banned hunting in 1952. But as oceans warm, sea ice melts and glaciers recede, all wildlife living in the Svalbard Archipelago face an uncertain future.
    Poolpynten, Prins Karl Forland, Norway July 2007
    Photo by: Paul Nicklen
  • A leopard seal greets underwater cameraman Göran Ehlmé at Antarctica's Anvers Island.
    Anvers Island, Antartica, 2006
    Photo by: Paul Nicklen
  • The inquisititive female becomes more insistent in her efforts to feed the photographer the penguin.
    Anvers Island, Antarctica February/March 2006
    Photo by: Paul Nicklen
  • Donna O‘Meara
  • Donna O‘Meara
  • Lava flows into the sea as a crescent moon rises in this double exposure taken at dusk.
    Kilauea Volcano, The Island of Hawai'i January 2009
    Photo by: Donna and Stephen O'Meara
  • As red hot rivers of lava pour into the Pacific Ocean near Kalapana, huge pieces of fragmented lava, called tephra, and cinder are blasted more than 1,000 feet skyward.
    Kilauea Volcano, The Island of Hawai'i July 2008
    Photo by: Donna and Stephen O'Meara
  • Stephen James O‘Meara
  • Stephen James O‘Meara
  • A lone man along the eastern slope of Kilauea Volcano watches as lava pours into the Pacific Ocean, causing the sea to boil into a giant steam cloud.
    Kilauea Volcano, The Island of Hawai'i January 2009
    Photo by: Donna and Stephen O'Meara
  • Stephen James O‘Meara
  • Pahoehoe lava flows to the coast, cooling into a hardened, fan‐shaped shelf called a lava delta or lava bench. As long as a supply of molten lava continues to flow, outpacing the destruction of the waves, new land continues to creep seaward.
    Kilauea Volcano, The Island of Hawai'i September 2006
    Photo by: Donna and Stephen O'Meara
  • Stephen James O‘Meara
  • Stephen James O‘Meara
  • A female leopard seal delivers her catch, a live penguin chick, dropping it on the photographer's camera.
    Anvers Island, Antarctica February/March 2006
    Photo by: Paul Nicklen
  • A gentoo penguin chick peeks under the ice to check for patrolling leopard seals before tempting fate.
    Port Lockroy, Antarctica February/March 2006
    Photo by: Paul Nicklen
  • Frustrated that the photographer has refused her offering, the leopard seal blows streams of bubbles.
    Anvers Island, Antarctica February/March 2006
    Photo by: Paul Nicklen
  • In a rare quiet moment during breeding season, a bull elephant seal throws sand on its back to keep cool. Getting close to the massive, mercurial creatures is a dangerous dance.
    Gold Harbour, South Georgia Island November 2008
    Photo by: Paul Nicklen
  • A ringed seal scans for polar bears before taking a breath.
    Admiralty Inlet, Nunavut, Canada July 2004
    Photo by: Paul Nicklen
  • King penguins and elephant seals gather on the beach during breeding season. The ultimate beach party, this profusion of wildlife is fueled by a krill‐rich current from Antarctica.
    St. Andrews Bay, South Georgia Island November 2008
    Photo by: Paul Nicklen
  • "The water was two feet deep, but the muck was endless, so I took this image from my pontoon boat. Even with anchors at each corner, the boat was still an unsteady platform. It took several attempts to achieve this one sharp image." ‐ Clyde Butcher
    Chasshowitzka River, Florida 1991
    Photo by: Clyde Butcher
  • "We were out hiking in the grassy plains on a summer day, and the beauty of the water, grass and cypress trees seemed to express the entire eco‐system of South Florida. I couldn't resist taking a photograph." ‐ Clyde Butcher
    Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida 1986
    Photo by: Clyde Butcher
  • "Mysteriously named plants like Guzmania and Ghost Orchid enticed me to explore the Fakahatchee Strand. Studded with native Royal Palms and numerous tropical plants, which are found only in the Strand and Central America, the Fakahatchee is truly a remarkable place." ‐ Clyde Butcher
    Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park, Florida 1999
    Photo by: Clyde Butcher
  • Nichols' introduction to wildlife and conservation photography came in 1980 with this image of a silverback mountain gorilla. The resulting photo‐essay told the story of The Mountain Gorilla Project, a group working to stop poaching, educate communities and familiarize gorillas to harmless observers, the beginnings of eco‐tourism.
    National Geographic Virunga Mountains, Rwanda, Africa 1980
    Photo by: Michael Nichols
  • Lake Tele in Northern Congo, a 3.5‐mile‐wide basin surrounded by vast swamp, is one of the most remote places on earth. Pygmy oral traditions led cryptozoologists to search here for mokele‐mbembe, the last living dinosaur.
    National Geographic Republic of the Congo, Africa 1998
    Photo by: Michael Nichols
  • Whiskey, a five‐year‐old chimpanzee, is held captive in a car‐repair garage. He is chained by his neck in a dark, wet, disused lavatory, having become too dangerous to continue as the family pet.
    National Geographic Bujumbura, Burundi, Africa 1989
    Photo by: Michael Nichols
  • A young tigress, recently pushed out of the pride by her mother, seeks relief from sweltering 120‐degree heat in a pool, despite its fetid brew of rolling leaves and monkey urine. She takes her own picture by breaking an infared beam.
    National Geographic Bandhavgarh National Park, India 1996
    Photo by: Michael Nichols
  • In 2002, Jane Goodall, then 68, hiked through three swamps to lend her celebrity to the effort to expand a national park that would protect the vulnerable naïve chimps of the Goualougo Triangle.
    National Geographic Goualougo Triangle, Republic of the Congo, Africa 2002
    Photo by: Michael Nichols
  • In 1990, Mike Fay discovered a society of chimpanzees who had never encountered humans. They possessed an abundant amount of curiosity without the innate fear of man found in other African wildlife. Twenty years later, these chimps have been studied and protected but remain vulnerable.
    National Geographic Goualougo Triangle, Republic of the Congo, Africa 2002
    Photo by: Michael Nichols
  • Surrounded and protected by adult females, young elephants play and mock fight. After witnessing the massacre in Chad, Nichols worked to establish elephants as sentient creatures with intricate family ties.
    National Geographic Samburu National Reserve, Kenya, Africa 2007
    Photo by: Michael Nichols
  • Men fashion themselves as tigers during an annual celebration in southern India.
    National Geographic Mangalore, India 1997
    Photo by: Michael Nichols
  • Darkness falls at a small village on the Motaba River as a Bantu hunter appears with his shotgun and food for his family: a spot‐nosed guenon.
    National Geographic Motaba River, Republic of the Congo, Africa 1999
    Photo by: Michael Nichols
  • Eight hundred elephants, led by a single matriarchal female who knows the safest route to fresh forage, head out of the Zakouma National Park. That evening, poachers ambushed the group. Twenty animals were massacred.
    National Geographic Zakouma National Park, Chad, Africa 2006
    Photo by: Michael Nichols
  • It took several days to find the massacre site outside of the southern border of Zakouma National Park. The perpetrators were never caught; the villagers and the military accused each other of killing the elephants.
    National Geographic Garanda Village, Chad, Africa 2006
    Photo by: Michael Nichols
  • In Chad, elephants live in complete danger. This male elephant was killed within earshot of an anti‐poaching team, who collected the ivory to ensure it didn't end up in China. They did not catch the killers.
    National Geographic Zakouma National Park, Chad, Africa 2006
    Photo by: Michael Nichols
  • Nine months through his 456‐day Megatransect, Mike Fay surveys the surrounding ocean of trees. A chain of rock outcrops in Minkebe Forest marked the most remote point in Fay's journey, 45 miles from the nearest village.
    National Geographic Minkebe Forest, Republic of the Congo, Africa 2000
    Photo by: Michael Nichols
  • A mandrill, orphaned by a shotgun blast, grabs for the camera from a hunting camp where it is tethered on a rope.
    National Geographic Gabon, Africa 2000
    Photo by: Michael Nichols
  • Bambendjelle Pygmies dance with the flooded forest spirit Mafoodya. The culture of the Pygmies is more endangered than the wildlife protected in Nouabale‐Ndoki National Park.
    National Geographic Djoube, Republic of the Congo, Africa 1999
    Photo by: Michael Nichols
  • All forest elephants fear humans; this elephant charges in response to the photographer's scent.
    Dzanga Bai, Dzanga- Ndoki National Park, Central African Republic, Africa 1993
    Photo by: Michael Nichols
  • Cathedral silence fills the old‐growth sanctuary of Humboldt Redwoods State Park.
    National Geographic Humboldt County, California 2008
    Photo by: Michael Nichols
  • Lions in Zakouma often feast on young elephants in the dry season, when herds become concentrated around water holes. Orphans of adult elephants killed by poachers are especially vulnerable.
    National Geographic Zakouma National Park, Chad, Africa 2006
    Photo by: Michael Nichols
  • Tusks of all lengths indicate these walruses are of various ages. The group has gathered on the Svalbard Archipelago, which can see as many as 2,600 walruses in a summer. By the early 1900s, ivory hunters had nearly wiped out Norway’s walrus herds.
    Bellsund, Spitsbergen, Norway July 2007
    Photo by: Paul Nicklen

Stories Behind the Photographs

  • Lancaster Sound, Nunavut, Canada June 2004
    The continuous loss of ice platforms where polar bears forage has led to shorter hunting seasons, increasingly threatening their survival.
    Paul Nicklen

    Paul Nicklen

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Featured Photographers

 
  • Paul Nicklen

    Paul Nicklen

    Photographer Paul Nicklen uses his camera to reveal the nature of a world melting away under human-induced global warming.

  • Michael Nichols

    Michael Nichols

    Michael Nichols has produced 25 stories for National Geographic magazine, devoting his career to producing photography that effects environmental change.

  • Clyde Butcher

    Clyde Butcher

    Clyde Butcher’s photographs explore his personal relationship with the environment.

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    Donna O‘Meara & Stephen O‘Meara

    Stephen James O’Meara is an award-winning photographer specializing in volcanic eruptions around the world. Donna O’Meara is recognized worldwide as an award-winning photographer, author and expert on volcanoes.

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  • Aaron Huey

    Aaron Huey

    Aaron Huey is a photojournalist who has shot 25 features for the National Geographic magazines.

  • Mark Moffett

    Mark Moffett

    Mark Moffett is a Harvard-trained ecologist who has had close to 500 images featured in National Geographic magazine.

  • Donna O‘Meara

    Donna O‘Meara

    Donna O’Meara is recognized worldwide as an award-winning photographer, author and expert on volcanoes.

  • Mike Theiss

    Mike Theiss

    Mike Theiss has documented 24 landfalling hurricanes, over 50 tornados, dozens of waterspouts and numerous other weather events.

  • Stephen James O‘Meara

    Stephen James O‘Meara

    Stephen James O’Meara is an award-winning photographer specializing in volcanic eruptions around the world.

  • Stephen Alvarez

    Stephen Alvarez

    For over 15 years, Stephen Alvarez has photographed cave expeditions to the most remote corners of the earth, from the world’s deepest cave in Abkhazia on the border with Russia to the vertigo-inspiring pits of his native Tennessee.

  • Melissa Farlow

    Melissa Farlow

    Melissa Farlow has worked extensively in the American West for National Geographic.

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    Emory Kristof

    Emory Kristof has been a National Geographic magazine photographer ever since he started working at the publication as an intern in 1963.

  • Mark Fisher

    Mark Fisher

    Mark Fisher got his start in the world of photography during an inspiring high school class, and his interest in outdoor adventure began during his regular midnight rappels off of multi-story parking garages.

  • George Steinmetz

    George Steinmetz

    Best known for his exploration photography, George Steinmetz has a restless curiosity for the unknown: remote deserts, obscure cultures and the mysteries of science and technology.

  • Cyril Christo & Marie Wilkinson

    Cyril Christo & Marie Wilkinson

    Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson work together documenting relationships between indigenous people and natural world.

  • Karen Kasmauski

    Karen Kasmauski

    Karen Kasmauski has built her career on the close observation of people.

  • Tyler Stableford

    Tyler Stableford

    A teacher at heart, Canon “Explorer of Light” award-winner Tyler Stableford uses adventure photography and filmmaking to capture the elusive so-called “dramatic moment.”

  • Paul Nicklen

    Paul Nicklen

    Photographer Paul Nicklen uses his camera to reveal the nature of a world melting away under human-induced global warming.

  • Michael Nichols

    Michael Nichols

    Michael Nichols has produced 25 stories for National Geographic magazine, devoting his career to producing photography that effects environmental change.

  • Daisy Gilardini

    Daisy Gilardini

    Daisy Gilardini fell in love with Antarctica on her first trip in 1997, and has since spent most of her time photographing Polar Regions.

  • Natalie Fobes

    Natalie Fobes

    Pulitzer Prize finalist Natalie Fobes has shot assignments for National Geographic, Smithsonian, Audubon and other major magazines.

  • Clyde Butcher

    Clyde Butcher

    Clyde Butcher’s photographs explore his personal relationship with the environment.

  • Erika Larsen

    Erika Larsen

    Erika Larsen has worked as a magazine photographer since 2000, specializing in human interest stories, sensitive cultural issues and the connection between people and the natural world.

Slideshow Night Photographers

 
  • Amy Gulick

    Amy Gulick

    Her images and stories have been featured in Outdoor Photographer, National Wildlife, Audubon, Sierra, and other publications.

  • Art Wolfe

    Art Wolfe

    Over the course of his 30-year career, award-winning photographer Art Wolfe has worked on every continent and in hundreds of locations.

  • Benjamin Drummond

    Benjamin Drummond

    Benjamin Drummond is a photographer, producer and designer.

  • Chris Linder

    Chris Linder

    Chris Linder uses photography and multimedia to communicate science.

  • Claudio Contreras Koob

    Claudio Contreras Koob

    Claudio Contreras Koob studied biology in Mexico’s University, and work as a full time nature photographer specializing in conservation related issues all over Mexico.

  • Garth Lenz

    Garth Lenz

    Garth Lenz is an award winning photographer and one of only 60 photographers to be named a Fellow of the prestigious International League of Conservation Photographers.

  • Gary Braasch

    Gary Braasch

    Environmental photojournalist Gary Braasch creates images and assignments about nature, environment, biodiversity and global warming for publication and around the world.

  • Gerrit Vyn

    Gerrit Vyn

    Gerrit Vyn is a wildlife and conservation photograher based in Seattle, Washington.

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    Heidi Bradner

    Heidi Bradner’s work documents an Arctic world that is extreme yet fragile and disappearing.

  • Jed Weingarten

    Jed Weingarten

    Jed Weingarten is a traveler, adventurer, outdoorsman, and photographer.

  • Jenny E. Ross

    Jenny E. Ross

    Jenny E. Ross is an award-winning photographer and writer focusing on wildlife, ecosystems, earth systems, environmental issues and related cultural and policy topics.

  • Jon Lowenstein

    Jon Lowenstein

    Jon Lowenstein has been a professional photographer for more than ten years.

  • Kevin Schafer

    Kevin Schafer

    Kevin Schafer is an award-winning natural history photographer, whose photographs appear in all of the major science and nature publications in the US, including National Geographic, Smithsonian, Natural History and National Wildlife.

  • Krista Schlyer

    Krista Schlyer

    Krista Schlyer is a photographer and writer focusing on conservation, biodiversity and public lands.

  • Magnus Elander

    Magnus Elander

    Magnus Elander, born and based in Sweden, is a freelance photographer, specializing in wildlife and conservation of the natural world.

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    Matthias Breiter

    Matthias Breiter is an internationally renowned and award-winning author, wildlife photographer, cinematographer, and founding member of the International League of Conservation Photographers.

  • Michael Ready

    Michael Ready

    Michael Ready is a naturalist and photographer based in San Diego, California.

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    Pete Oxford

    Pete Oxford works with his wife Reneé as a photographic team concentrating on wildlife and indigenous cultures.

  • Pete McBride

    Pete McBride

    Pete McBride is an award winning photographer, writer and visual storyteller whose love of adventure, cultures and the outdoors have taken him on assignment throughout over 60 countries.

  • Piotr Naskrecki

    Piotr Naskrecki

    Dr. Piotr Naskrecki is an award-winning nature photographer and entomologist, currently at Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology.

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    Rozarii Lynch

    Rozarii Lynch is a Seattle based freelance photographer.

  • Stefano Unterthine

    Stefano Unterthine

    Growing up in a small mountain village in northwest Italy, Stefano Unterthiner spent his early years photographing and trekking around the beautiful mountains of the Aosta Valley region.

  • Steve Winter

    Steve Winter

    Since the 1980s, Steve Winter’s assignments have taken him around the globe, sometiimes to remote and physically challenging destinations, to shoot for publications such as GEO Magazine, Time, Newsweek, Fortune, and Natural History.

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    Tammy Cromer-Campbell

    Tammy Cromer-Campbell is an award winning photographer, author and filmmaker that focuses on environmental injustice.

  • Theo Allofs

    Theo Allofs

    Theo Allofs has been a professional photographer for the past 25 years.

  • Tim Matsui

    Tim Matsui

    Tim Matsui is a multimedia journalist and producer focusing on human trafficking, alternative energy, and the environment.

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    Tom Wool

    In May 2001 Tom Wool traveled to the Rongbuk Valley in Tibet, retracing the footsteps of the early British expeditions attempting to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

  • Uri Golman

    Uri Golman

    Photographer Uri Golman has always been drawn by nature, by wildlife and by adventure.

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