The Ansel Adams Award for Photography, formally called Ansel Adams Award for Conservation Photography, named in honor of

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Ansel Adams, is a

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award administered by the Sierra Club. The award "honor photographers who have used their talents in conservation efforts."

List of recipients

*1971 — Donald M. Bradburn *1972 — Beverly Steveson *1973 — Leonard Berkowitz (1919-2007) *1974 — Bruce Barnbaum *1976 — C. Scott Heppel *1978 — C.C. Lockwood *1981 — Ernie Day *1983 —

Dewitt Jones Dewitt Jones is an American professional photographer, writer, film director and public speaker, who is known for his work as a freelance photojournalist for National Geographic and his column in Outdoor Photographer Magazine. He produced and ...

*1984 —

Galen Rowell Galen Avery Rowell (August 23, 1940 – August 11, 2002) was a wilderness photographer, adventure photojournalist and mountaineer. Born in Oakland, California, he became a full-time photographer in 1972. Early life and education Rowell was intr ...

*1985 —

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*1986 — Robert M. Lindholm *1988 — Tom Algire *1989 — Robert Glenn Ketchum *1990 — Edward Schell *1991 — Stephen Trimble *1992 — J. D. Marston *1993 —

John Fielder John Fielder (born 1950) is an American landscape photographer, nature writer, publisher of over 40 books, and conservationist. He is nationally known for his landscape photography, scenic calendars (which have been published for over 30 years) a ...

*1995 — William Neill *1997 —

Frans Lanting Frans Lanting (born 13 July 1951) is a Dutch National Geographic photographer, author and speaker. Life Lanting was born in Rotterdam in Netherlands. He studied economics at the Erasmus university in Rotterdam and later immigrated to the United St ...

*1998 — Jim Stimson *2000 —

Clyde Butcher Clyde Butcher (born September 6, 1942) is an American large-format camera photographer known for wilderness photography of the Florida landscape. He began his career doing color photography before switching to large-scale black-and-white landscap ...

*2001 — Robin Way *2002 — Jack Jeffrey *2003 — Douglas Steakley *2004 — Ken Adelman and Gabrielle Adelman *2005 —

Larry Allen Larry Christopher Allen Sr. (born November 27, 1971) is an American former American football, football Guard (gridiron football), guard who played in the National Football League (NFL) for fourteen seasons, primarily with the Dallas Cowboys. H ...

*2006 —

Gary Braasch Gary Braasch (1944 – March 7, 2016) was an American environmental photographer and writer focusing on nature and biodiversity across the globe. Braasch was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and made his home in Oregon. Work Braasch has been photographing ...

*2007 —

Wilbur Mills Wilbur Daigh Mills (May 24, 1909 – May 2, 1992) was an American Democratic politician who represented in the United States House of Representatives from 1939 until his retirement in 1977. As chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee from ...

*2008 — Steven Kazlowski *2009 — Joshua Wolfe *2010 — Chris Jordan *2011 — Ian Shive *2012 — Florian Schulz *2013 —

James Balog James Balog (pronounced ''BAY-log''; born July 15, 1952) sometimes referred to as Jim Balog, is an American photographer whose work explores the relationship between humans and nature. Since the early 1980s, Balog has photographed such subjects ...

*2014 — Krista Schlyer *2015 — Boyd Norton *2016 —

Nick Brandt Nick Brandt (born 1964) is an English photographer. Brandt's work generally focuses on the rapidly disappearing natural world, as a result of environmental destruction, climate change and humans' actions. Background and early career Born in 19 ...

*2017 —

Michael Forsberg Michael Forsberg is conservation photographer who has dedicated 25 years of his life to photograph America's Great Plains, once one of the greatest grassland ecosystems on Earth. He is best known for his images of the Great Plains, wildlife, landsc ...

*2018 — Thomas D. Mangelsen *2019 — Tim Palmer *2020 — Rob Badger and Nita Winter *2021 — Joel Sartore *2022 —

QT Luong QT Luong (born 1964) is a French-Vietnamese born American photographer known for his work in the U.S. National Parks, as well as for work in the theory of computer vision. In 2022, Luong received the Ansel Adams Award for Conservation Photography ...

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{{Ansel Adams, state=collapsed Awards established in 1971 Photography awards Sierra Club Environmental awards Nature conservation in the United States Ansel Adams

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